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In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.
Alexander I has been depicted in a fantasy novel.
* Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.
Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.
Bunyips appear in Naomi Novik's fantasy novel Tongues of Serpents.
The game was inspired by Richard Adams ' fantasy novel Watership Down, and the players were given the opportunity to take on the role of rabbits.
* Cassiopeia, a tortoise featured in Michael Ende's fantasy book Momo ( novel )
He spans genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy, sometimes within the same novel: a typical example of Simmons ' ability to intermingle genres is Song of Kali ( 1985 ), winner of World Fantasy Award.
* Valyrian Freehold, an ancient civilization in 1996 fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".
Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").
This new network was known as " dal's net ", after the nickname used by the administrator of the first IRC server on the network, " dalvenjah ", taken from the dragon " Dalvenjah Foxfire ", in a fantasy novel by Thorarinn Gunnarsson.
* In the fantasy novel Little, Big by John Crowley, the character Theodore Bramble considers " a peculiar geography I can only describe as infundibular ...
She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.
* He has been credited with being the author, or alternatively the designer, of the woodcut illustrations of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a strange fantasy novel.
He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.
In July 2004, Miyazaki completed production on Howl's Moving Castle, a film adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones ' fantasy novel.
* Nemesis, a 1989 fantasy novel in the Indigo series by Louise Cooper
* Origins, a fantasy novel in the Fourth World series by Kate Thompson
Although Heinlein had previously written a few short stories in the fantasy genre, during this period he wrote his first fantasy novel, Glory Road, and in Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, he began to mix hard science with fantasy, mysticism, and satire of organized religion.
* REM World, a fantasy / science fiction novel by Rodman Philbrick

fantasy and Folk
The producers say that Queer as Folk, although superficially a realistic depiction of gay urban life in the 1990s, is meant as a fantasy, and that Stuart, Vince, and Nathan are not so much characters as gay male archetypes.
The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield first published in 1927.

fantasy and Air
Some examples of this type of science fantasy deliberately blur the already vague distinction between science fictional paranormal powers and magic ; for instance, Poul Anderson's The Queen of Air and Darkness, in which aliens use psionic powers of illusion to imitate earthly myths of fairies — who are themselves traditionally regarded as magical illusionists.
CBS scheduled Norman Corwin's Words Without Music, the first usage of a writer's name in a program title ; the series included two of his more famous works, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, a fantasy in rhyme, and They Fly Through The Air, an impassioned reaction to the Spanish Civil War.
Scot is the title character in the historic fantasy novel The Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scott Rohan, who claims descent from the magician.
Air Labrador conducted a fantasy flight in the 1990s with a Santa Claus visit on board while it taxied the tarmac.
Currently in the pipeline are Lowell Was Right-a SF game set in a universe where western science as of 1900 was basically correct, and all newer changes were wrong, and Volant-Kingdoms of Air and Stone-a fantasy game set in a world of floating mountains, where giant birds are ridden though the air, and monsters prowl the surface below.

fantasy and by
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.
Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.
* Hugh Cook's fantasy novels The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers and The Wazir and the Witch feature an Analytical Engine created by the scientist Ivan Petrov.
* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.
Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.
They revelled in the legend that he was taken by Timur to Samarkand, and embellished it with a cast of characters to create an oriental fantasy that has maintained its appeal.
Potter ’ s artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy.
The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.
* The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis
The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.
Conan the Barbarian was created by Howard in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine in 1932.

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