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The fantasy writer and paleontologist Caitlín R. Kiernan has used Red Mountain, particularly the area west of U. S. Route 31 and the Red Mountain cut, as the setting for four of her novels – Silk ( 1998 ), Threshold ( 2001 ), Low Red Moon ( 2003 ), and, to a much lesser extent, Murder of Angels ( 2004 ).
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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.
The 20th-century fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien anglicized Álfheim as Elvenhome, or Eldamar in the speech of the Elves.
The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.
Catherine Lucille Moore ( January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987 ) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore.
In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.
In the same year, Gygax created the magazine The Strategic Review with himself as editor, and then he hired Tim Kask to assist in the transition of this magazine into the fantasy periodical The Dragon, with Gygax as writer, columnist, and publisher ( from 1978 to 1981 ).
* Eric Rücker Eddison ( The Worm Ouroboros and The Zimiamvian Trilogy ) was a pre-Tolkien high fantasy writer.
In recent years, however, the term has been revived in an attempt to describe and categorize, in literary and philosophical terms, how it is that the work of an irrealist writer differs from the work of writers in other, non-realistic genres ( e. g., the fantasy of J. R. R.
She married fantasy writer David Mason ( 1924-1974 ) in 1956.
After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in May 1950.
The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob ( born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England ) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.
Ray Douglas Bradbury ( August 22, 1920June 5, 2012 ) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer.
He often said he was a fantasy writer, not a science fiction writer, and numerous times is quoted stating " The only science fiction I've written is Farenheit 451 ," elucidating " science fiction is the art of the possible.
Not always annually there are also the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award since 1975 for lifetime achievement in science fiction or fantasy, the Bradbury Award since 1992 for best dramatic presentation, the Author Emeritus title since 1995 to a senior writer whose major impact was long ago or overlooked.
Stephen R. Lawhead, born, is a best-selling United Kingdom based American writer known for his works of fantasy, science fiction, and more recently, historical fiction, particularly Celtic historical fiction.
James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.
They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs (" A Different Kind of Tension "), declaiming their catechism in the anthem " I Believe ", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard (" Radio Nine ").
James Thorne Smith, Jr. ( March 27, 1892 – June 21, 1934 ) was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith.
The plots vary from writer to writer, but there are distinct similarities between wuxia protagonists and characters from the modern Western fantasy genre.
* September 17 – Mary Stewart, British fantasy and mystery writer
He worked with fantasy novel writer Mercedes Lackey on a few of his albums.
Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction ( such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll ) may use a pseudonym for fiction writing.
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Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.
* The Museum has appeared repeatedly in the fiction of dark fantasy author Caitlín R. Kiernan, including appearances in her fifth novel Daughter of Hounds, her work on the DC / Vertigo comic book The Dreaming (# 47, " Trinket "), and many of her short stories, including " Valentia " and " Onion " ( both collected in To Charles Fort, With Love, 2005 ).
Dark fantasy author Caitlín R. Kiernan uses Bannerman's Castle and Pollepel Island as the setting for a number of the stories in her collection, Tales of Pain and Wonder ( 2000 ), including " Estate ," " The Last Child of Lir ," and " Salammbô.
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The Romanticist movement revived literary interest in folk beliefs and culture, and elves entered the 20th-century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.
* Valyrian Freehold, an ancient civilization in 1996 fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
* In George R. R. Martin's fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, armies are often referred to as hosts.
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 ").
High fantasy was brought to fruition through the work of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.
* Mark of Rohan, fictional realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth.
In Ariel, a 1983 post-apocalyptic fantasy by Steven R. Boyett, technology suddenly stops working and sorcery and swordfight take over.
Tékumel is a fantasy world created by M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940.
Barker's legendarium, like that of the better-known J. R. R. Tolkien, considered not just the creation of a fantasy world but also an in-depth development of the societies and languages of the world.
One of the most popular " trilogies " of fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is not a trilogy, though it is often referred to as such.
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`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is a fantasy with extraordinary power to disturb the reader -- but we do not know why.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.
we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.
We have so completely entered the child's fantasy that his illness and his death are the plausible and the necessary conclusion.
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.
The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.
* 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 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.
* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.
Alexander I has been depicted in a fantasy novel.
The fantasy worlds and kingdoms gradually acquired the characteristics of real world — sovereigns, armies, heroes, outlaws, fugitives, inns, schools and publishers.
Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.
Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.
* Lady Amalthea, a character in the fantasy novel and animated movie The Last Unicorn.
Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.
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