In 2009, Charles formed the Fantasy Funk Band, from the leading British musicians in the genre, and has presented the band at festivals, including Glastonbury.

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

The name gnome has been used in the Fantasy genre, typically in a cunning role, e. g. as an inventor.

* The Fantasy Rules Committee, which originated as a sub-game of another nomic but has since grown into a game in its own right.

A new Chrono series game has not been made due to the difficulty of reuniting the splintered Cross development team, some of which continue to work on Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV, while others left Square Enix ( then Square ) after the completion of Chrono Cross to form Monolith Soft.

SF fandom has a life of its own, but not much in the way of formal organization ( although clubs such as the Futurians, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and the National Fantasy Fan Federation are recognized features of fandom ).

Their best-known single, " Genius of Love ", has been sampled numerous times, notably on old school hip hop classic " It's Nasty ( Genius of Love )" by Grandmaster Flash and on Mariah Carey's 1995 hit " Fantasy ".

She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award several times each.

Le Guin has received five Hugo awards and six Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.

They claim that Fantasy Games Unlimited, Inc. ceased to exist in 1991, and that their contract specified that in such an event the rights would revert to them, and that therefore the current Fantasy Games Unlimited ( which they claim is a separate legal entity, although with the same owner ) has no right to sell V & V material.

The magazine's content is divided among the three core games ( Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings SBG ), with roughly equal amounts of page space devoted to each, although The Lord of the Rings SBG usually has the least amount of space with usually only 1 / 4 to 1 / 5 of the magazine.

The game has been subject to extremely positive reviews, receiving 94 % on Metacritic, making it the most critically acclaimed Final Fantasy game on the website.

Chrono Trigger, released in 1995, was already localized by Ted Woolsey, but the Final Fantasy Chronicles version has additional modifications.

She has also appeared in several Disneyland parades and shows over the years, including The World According to Goofy, Light Magic, the Parade of the Stars, Fantasmic, A Christmas Fantasy Parade and Celebrate!

Also, the main antagonist in Final Fantasy VI, Kefka Palazzo has a jester-like appearance and attitude ; as do the main villains in the video games Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Persona 2 and Super Paper Mario.

Its various factions and races include the Imperium of Man, a decentralized yet totalitarian interstellar empire that has ruled the vast majority of humanity for millennia, the Orks ( similar to Warhammer Fantasy Orcs ), the Eldar ( similar to Elves in Warhammer Fantasy Battle ), and Daemons ( very similar in both universes, although the precise natures of their creation and existence vary slightly ), among others.

The original UK hardcover edition ( ISBN 0-575-02011-3 ) has the subtitle " A Fantasy of Love and Discord " and has 38 chapters and " Acknowledgments and Notes ".

She is also the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in the English version of the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, as well as in the Disney / Square game Kingdom Hearts and has continued success as a voice over actor on shows like Family Guy and The Penguins of Madagascar.

As well as giving its classical concerts, the LPO has made several film soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia, The Mission, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as well as some CD albums of video game music from the Square Enix series Dragon Quest composed by Koichi Sugiyama, Symphonic Poem: Hope for Final Fantasy XII, the soundtrack for Xenosaga Episode I composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and even Elkie Brooks ' Screen Gems, the entire album of which was used in modern films.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

For instance while the Dark Elves have long existed as the main antagonist to the High Elves in Warhammer Fantasy, Games Workshop originally incorporated both High and Dark Elves ' elements into the Craftworld Eldar for the Warhammer 40, 000 universe.

In part this is because John Fogerty " long ago signed away legal control of his old recordings to Creedence's record label, Fantasy Records.

Mason had already quit the group by the time Mr. Fantasy was released, but rejoined for a few months of 1968, long enough to contribute to a slim majority of the songs on their second album, Traffic.

The Grand Triumphal Fantasy, long forgotten, resurfaced in popularity in 1985, at the dawn of Brazil's New Republic, during the country's re-democratization process, when it was played to accompany the funeral cortège of President Tancredo Neves.

He is world famous as the creator of the Final Fantasy series, and has had a long career in gaming with over 100 million units of video games sold worldwide.

A long time proponent of bringing together the story-telling vehicle of film and the interactive elements of games, Sakaguchi took the leap from games to film when he made his debut as film director in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, an animated motion picture based on his world-famous Final Fantasy series.

According to an interview with Joypad, a French gaming magazine, in 2004, Yasumi Matsuno claimed during its development that Ivalice, the game world he created when he joined Square in 1995, is a complex world with a very long history and the stories of Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Final Fantasy XII are said to unfold quite close on the Ivalice map.

During an interview at E³ 2003, this development team stated that they would love to develop a new Chrono game, but their commitment to Final Fantasy XI would keep them busy for a long time.

Once Carnell took over, Science Fantasy typically ran a long lead novelette along with several shorter stories ; prominent contributors in the 1950s included John Brunner, Ken Bulmer, and Brian Aldiss, whose first novel Nonstop appeared ( in an early version ) in the February 1956 issue.

Palmer contacted Arnold and asked him to investigate the incident for the story Arnold was writing for one of Palmer's publications ( the FBI report states Palmer was the editor of the magazines Venture and Fantacy given as " Fantasy " elsewhere in the report at this time, although both Venture Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction first appeared long after the incident.

" Writing in The San Diego Union-Tribune, Jim Hopper called A Clash of Kings " High Fantasy with a vengeance " and commented: " I'll admit to staying up too late one night last week to finish off this big book, and I hope it's not too terribly long until the next one comes out.

It was also known as Television X The Fantasy Channel for a long time, although it has since dropped that name.

Battlelore's first demo Warrior's Tale was released in 1999, the same year of the founding of the group, but Battlelore attracted the attention of the Austrian record label Napalm Records only after the publication of the second demo Dark Fantasy in 2000, which featured for the first time long standing members Kaisa Jouhki as female singer, Henri Vahvanen on drums and Maria Honkanen on keyboards.

* Fantasy Amateur Press Association ( FAPA )-science fiction ; the first science fiction APA, founded in 1937 by Donald A. Wollheim, who went on to a long career in writing, editing and publishing ( DAW Books ).

Westercon ( occasionally WesterCon ; long version West Coast Science Fantasy Conference ) is a regional science fiction and fantasy convention founded in September 1948 by Walter J.

In Final Fantasy VII, Hojo is defeated by Cloud and his allies, but in Dirge of Cerberus, he is revealed to have survived long enough to have placed a computer-simulated copy of himself into the " Worldwide Network "; he subsequently embeds himself in Weiss ' body and attempts to use him to forcefully summon Omega WEAPON who, after collecting the Lifestream, would depart from Gaia.

Ivalice is described as a complex world with a very long history, and the stories of Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Final Fantasy XII are said to unfold quite close on the Ivalice map.

Early Ellington hits, such as Black and Tan Fantasy, Doin ' the Voom Voom, East Saint Louis Toodle-oo and Creole Love Call prominently feature Miley's solo work and were thematically inspired by his melodic ideas, which he, in turn, often borrowed from Baptist hymns sung in his church, such as Stephen Adams ' Holy City.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

Cloud's Japanese voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, first voiced the character in Kingdom Hearts with the idea that Cloud was a different character from the one in Final Fantasy VII, which he was a fan of.

Tajiri was also influenced by Square's Game Boy game The Final Fantasy Legend, noting in an interview that the game gave him the idea that more than just action games could be developed for the handheld.

The idea for the game came about when a chatter mistakenly referred to Enchanted Forest II ( an existing game ) as Fantasy Quest II.

Hironobu Sakaguchi — one of Chrono Trigger ′ s creators — pitched the idea of an MMORPG to Square while working on Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

The idea was for the film to focus on the characters of Cloud and Tifa in a similar way to how other titles from Compilation of Final Fantasy VII centered on certain characters ( for example, Before Crisis focuses on the Turks, Dirge of Cerberus focuses on Vincent, and Crisis Core focuses on Zack Fair ).

* Dramatic Fantasy for violin and cello ( an idea which was given to him by Meyerbeer ).

Igor Stravinsky, on the other hand, traces Stimmungs one-note idea back to Henry Purcell's Fantasy upon One Note, and its time-scale to Wagner's Götterdämmerung, while at the same time observing that this time-scale " indicates the need of a musical equivalent to the parking meter " ( Stravinsky and Craft 1969, 94 – 95 ).

Nevertheless, the idea of lighter-than-air motherships for fleets of smaller aircraft remains romanticized in fiction today, in games such as Crimson Skies and Final Fantasy.

* The image is used to illustrate important characteristics of Final Fantasy X mentioned in the article, which conveys to the reader an idea of what they look like

It reminded me of growing up and listening to the radio and that feeling the song gave me seemed to go with the melody and basic idea I had for " Fantasy ".

Although now anyone is free to use this idea, the success of “ Mimi ” to The Emancipation of Mimi, her tenth studio album released almost a decade after Fantasy suggests that it still belongs to Carey.

In 1962, while still residing in Oklahoma City, Bridwell submitted to the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction his first idea for a Feghoot adventure, a specific type of shaggy dog story that ends in a humorous and unexpected play on words.