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.

He might have been hoping, to all appearances, that this relatively sunny symphony, in conjunction with the Choral Fantasy at the end of the program, could amount to something like the Ninth ; ;

Several of the Fighting Fantasy titles have been released as video games, including seven Fighting Fantasy titles ( The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos, The Forest of Doom, Temple of Terror, Seas of Blood, Appointment with F. E. A. R.

TOSE ported both titles from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ; each had been previously released as individual Japanese PlayStation ports in 1997 ( Final Fantasy IV ) and 1999 ( Chrono Trigger ).

Final Fantasy IV Official Soundtrack is nearly the same release as Final Fantasy IV: Original Sound Version, the soundtrack album for the original game, except that the songs were rerecorded by TOSE, resulting in minor differences, some song titles were slightly changed, and a 45th track was added, " Theme of Love ( Arranged )", which had previously only been released as a piano version on the second track of Piano Collections Final Fantasy IV.

Pieces from his video game works have been performed in Final Fantasy concerts.

Uematsu's video game compositions have been performed in numerous concerts, and various Final Fantasy concerts have also been held.

The most successful games after Ultima Online have been EverQuest ( released in March 1999 ), Asheron's Call ( released in November 1999 ), Dark Age of Camelot ( released in October 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( released in May 2002 ), World of Warcraft ( released in November 2004 ).

Several of his stories have been nominated for the genre's awards ; " The Ugly Chickens " -- about the extinction of the dodo -- won a Nebula award for best novelette in 1980, and also a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1981 ; this is perhaps his best known work.

There have been other timpani concertos, notably, Philip Glass, considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, wrote a double concerto titled Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, which features its soloists playing nine drums apiece.

Chocobos first appeared in Final Fantasy II and have been featured in almost all subsequent Final Fantasy games, as well as making cameo appearances in numerous other games.

Some developers have acted deliberately to delete items that have been traded for money, as in Final Fantasy XI, where a task force was set up to delete characters involved in selling in-game currency for real-world money.

It includes music from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Live A Live, Kingdom Hearts, Front Mission, Legend of Mana, and Heroes of Mana ; Shimomura has stated that she chose music that was popular among fans and well-suited for orchestration, but had never been performed by an orchestra.

However, this definition has been met with some disagreement in recent years as it places too much emphasis on Sexual Fantasy which are usually used to supplement sexual arousal.

In the console RPG series Final Fantasy, character classes can be grouped similarly by characteristics like relative physical / magical / special attack / defense power, but distinguished by their skills and equipment.

Splatterpunk — a term coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island — refers to a movement within horror fiction distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence and " hyperintensive horror with no limits.

The title, like the game books that followed in the Fighting Fantasy series, distinguished itself by featuring a fantasy role-playing element, with the caption on each cover claiming each title was " a Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which YOU are the hero!

Phantasy Star, along with Dragon Quest, and Final Fantasy, distinguished itself as a pioneer of what came to be defined as console role-playing.

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

Writers of Fantasy fiction draw heavily from the fanciful beasts described in mythology, fairy tales, and bestiaries.

File: Gen Con Indy 2008-costumes 263. JPG | Fantasy clothing made from mail.

* The character of Dr. Hesselius is featured in a Mutual Broadcasting Network radio drama entitled " The Shadow People ", an episode from The Hall of Fantasy series ( 1946 – 1947, 1949 – 1952, 1952, 1953 ).

In 1937 Wollheim founded the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, whose first mailing ( July 1937 ) included this statement from Wollheim: " There are many fans desiring to put out a voice who dare not, for fear of being obliged to keep it up, and for the worry and time taken by subscriptions and advertising.

Japanese Fantasy Film Journal ( JFFJ ) ( 1968 – 1983 ) from Greg Shoemaker covered Toho's Godzilla and his Asian brethren when no other publications much cared.

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 ".

In a series of 2010 YouTube advertisements for Vitamin Water, Busey appears as Norman Tugwater, a lawyer who defends professional athletes ' entitlements to a cut from Fantasy Football team owners.

At the start of each episode of the 1998 television series Fantasy Island, a darker version of the original, bookings for would-be visitors to the Island were sent to Mr. Roarke via a pneumatic tube from a dusty old travel agency.

There are national awards, like Canada's Aurora Award, regional awards, like the Endeavour Award presented at Orycon for works from the Pacific Northwest, special interest or subgenre awards like the Chesley Award for art or the World Fantasy Award for fantasy.

" Among the responses to Lethem was one from the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction who asked: " When is it SF genre ever going to realize it can't win the game of trying to impress the mainstream?

While the American magazines Amazing Stories, with Cele Goldsmith as editor, and the respected Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction had from the very start had a leaning towards unusually literary stories, Moorcock turned that into a concerted policy.

*" Fantasy for Fun and Profit ": an article about the company from the Austin American Statesman, April 18, 1988

* Video: Susan Faludi-The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9 / 11 America ( October 19, 2007 ), lecture from 2007 book tour.

Fantasy Forum ran from 1987 to 1992 with a total of ten issues.

This shōjo oriented adaptation was written by Yuzuru Yashiro and serialized in Asuka Fantasy DX from April 8, 1996 through January 18, 1997.

* Egoff, Sheila A., Worlds Within: Children ’ s Fantasy from the Middle Ages to Today ( Chicago & London: American Library Association, 1988 )

Fantasy and science fiction wargames either draw their inspiration from works of fiction or provide their own imaginary setting.

Players journey between field screen locations on the world map, a three dimensional, downsized representation of Final Fantasy IXs world presented from a top-down perspective.

Final Fantasy IX deviates from the style of customizable characters featured in the last two titles by reviving the character class concept, which designates a character to a certain role in battle.

Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles is a set of two separately-released compact discs published by TokyoPop.

Jessica Amanda Salmonson similarly sought to broaden the range of roles for female characters in S & S through both her own stories and in editing the World Fantasy Award-winning Amazons ( 1979 ) and Amazons II ( 1982 ) anthologies ; both drew on real and folkloric women warriors, often from areas outside of Europe.

* Edward " Edge " Geraldine, a character from the game Final Fantasy IV