Tag Archives: Epic Fantasy

Crushing Conservatism in Epic Fantasy?

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

So last week, Gollancz (an excellent British publisher of science fiction and fantasy) got some discussion going by tweeting a provocative question: Epic Fantasy is, by and large, crushingly conservative in its delivery, its politics and its morality. Discuss. And … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Orb Sceptre Throne by Ian C. Esslemont

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Title: Orb Sceptre Throne Author: Ian C. Esslemont Pub Date: May 22nd, 2012 Chris’ Rating (5 possible): An Attempt at Categorization If You Like… / You Might Like… Stonewielder The Crippled God Night of Knives Gardens of the Moon Chronicles … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Blackdog by K. V. Johansen

Posted on September 6, 2011 by

Title: Blackdog Author: K.V. Johansen Pub Date: September 6th, 2011 Chris’ Rating (5 possible): An Attempt at Categorization If You Like… / You Might Like… Mistborn The Black Prism The Name of the Wind Assassin’s Apprentice The First Swords: The … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

Title: Stonewielder: A Novel of the Malazan Empire Author: Ian C. Esslemont Pub Date: May 10th, 2011 Chris’ Rating (5 possible): An Attempt at Categorization If You Like… / You Might Like… Night of Knives Gardens of the Moon Chronicles … Continue reading →

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Where are the massive epic science fiction series?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

I’ve really been enjoying the invective-laden “debate” between Sam Sykes and Ari Marmell over at Babel Clash this past week. Their discussion, essentially on “standalone fantasy novels” versus “single-story epic fantasy series” raised an interesting question in my mind. With … Continue reading →

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Writing an Episodic Genre Series (Part 1 of 3): Episodic Heroes

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

I recently had the pleasure of reading the first two books in Harry Connolly’s Twenty Palaces series, and this got me thinking about the nature of episodic science fiction and fantasy. By episodic series, I’m thinking a four, five, ten … Continue reading →

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Words on a Fertile Shore: The Evolution of Science Fiction and Fantasy Language

Posted on December 28, 2010 by

While eating delicious (and incredibly over-filling) holiday meals this weekend, I found myself thinking about Google Labs’ new Ngram Viewer. In my day job I deal with statistics, semantics, ontologies, and computational linguistics all day long. Which makes the Ngram … Continue reading →

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