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World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement
The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction and fantasy art published in English during the preceding calendar year. The awards have been described by sources such as ''The Guardian'' as a "prestigious fantasy prize", and as one of the three most renowned speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...). The World Fantasy Award—Life Achievement is given each year to individuals for their overall career in fields related to fantasy. These have included, for example, authors, editors, and publishers. The specific nomination reasons are not given, and nominees are not required to have retired, though they can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures. The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, which later became fantasy literature, fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century onward, it has expanded into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animation, and video games. The expression ''fantastic literature'' is often used for this genre by Anglophone literary critics. An archaic spelling for the term is ''phantasy''. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by an absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these can occur in fantasy. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that reflect the actual Earth, but with some sense of otherness. Characteristics Many works of fantasy use magic (paranorma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hounds Of Tindalos
The Hounds of Tindalos are fictional creatures created by Frank Belknap Long and later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos when it was codified by August Derleth. They first appeared in Long's short story "The Hounds of Tindalos", first published in the March 1929 issue of ''Weird Tales''. Lovecraft mentions the creatures in his short story "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1931). Description In Frank Belknap Long's original story, which deals with the main character experimenting in time travel with the help of psychedelic drugs and esoteric artifacts, the Hounds are said to inhabit the ''angles'' of time, while other beings (such as humankind and all common life) descend from ''curves''. Though the Hounds are sometimes pictured as canine, probably because of the evocative name, their appearance is unknown, since neither Long nor Lovecraft describe them, arguing they are too foul to ever be described. Long's story states that their name "veils their foulness". It is said that they h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of Unreason
''Land of Unreason'' is a fantasy novel by American writers Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the fantasy magazine '' Unknown Worlds'' for October, 1941 as "The Land of Unreason". Revised and expanded, it was first published in book form by Henry Holt and Company in 1942. It has been reprinted numerous times since by various publishers, including by Ballantine Books in January 1970 as the tenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011, as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. Plot Fred Barber, an American staying as a guest in an English country home during World War II, consumes a bowl of milk left as an offering for the fairies, substituting liquor in its place. The rightful recipient of the offering, drunk and offended at the substitution, takes vengeance by kidnapping Barber off to the Land of Faerie as a changeling, a fate no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goblin Tower
''The Goblin Tower'' is a fantasy novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the first book of both his Novarian series and the " Reluctant King" trilogy featuring King Jorian of Xylar. It is not to be confused with the collection of poetry by the same title by Frank Belknap Long. De Camp's novel was first published as a paperback by Pyramid Books in 1968. It was reprinted by Del Rey Books in December 1983, July 1987, and July 1989. It was later gathered together with its sequels '' The Clocks of Iraz'' (1971) and '' The Unbeheaded King'' (1983) into the omnibus collection ''The Reluctant King'' (Nelson Doubleday/SFBC, February 1985). The first independent hardbound edition was issued by HarperCollins in 1987. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011, as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form. The novel has been translated into French, Italian and German. Plot summary The Kingdom of Xylar, one of the twelve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory—inspiring Dahl's idea for the recipe-thieving spies (such as Wonka's rival Slugworth) depicted in the book. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James And The Giant Peach
''James and the Giant Peach'' is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been re-illustrated versions of it over the years, drawn by Michael Simeon (for the first British edition), Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 (with Smith being a conceptual designer) which was directed by Henry Selick, and a musical in 2010. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to ''James and the Giant Peach'' because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry". Because of the story's occasional macabre and potentially frightening content, it has become a regular target of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
''The Castle of Crossed Destinies'' () is a 1973 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Background The novel is in two parts, each using a different style of tarot deck. The first part was published alone in 1969 as ''Tarocchi: Il mazzo visconteo di Bergamo e New York'' (Tarots: The Visconti Pack in Bergamo and New York). It contains allusions to Ludovico Ariosto's ''Orlando Furioso''. The second part, with the header "The Tavern of Crossed Destinies", features the Tarot of Marseilles. Synopsis The narrative details a meeting among travelers who are inexplicably unable to speak after passing through a forest. The characters in the novel recount their tales via tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator. The deck scatters at the end of the novel, as do the characters' identities. Themes The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words (by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Baron In The Trees
''The Baron in the Trees'' ( ) is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Described as a '' conte philosophique'' and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Calvino published a new version of the novel in 1959. Plot Set in an imaginary village on the Ligurian Riviera, Ombrosa represents the author's vision as a central theme, little inclined to judgments and dull opinions. The novel is narrated by Biagio, the younger brother of the protagonist, and is the story of a young baron, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, firstborn of a noble family sadly behind the times. The main story begins with a dispute on June 15, 1767 in the villa of Ombrosa, between an adolescent Cosimo and his father, after which Cosimo, who had quarreled with his father because he had refused to eat a snail soup, climbs the trees of the home garden and promises never to come down again in his entire life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Of Earth
''Northwest of Earth'' is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1954 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine ''Weird Tales''. Contents * "The Cold Gray God" * "The Dark Land" * "Dust of Gods" * "Hellsgarde" * "Julhi" * "Lost Paradise" * "Yvala" Reception P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "full of the lush, colorful tapestry of words which Merritt did best of all, and which we lack in most modern science fiction." J. Francis McComas reviewed it favorably in ''The New York Times'', but noted that it represented Moore's "youthful" work."Spacemen's Realm", ''The New York Times Book Review ''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jirel Of Joiry
Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales''. The character Jirel is the proud, tough, arrogant and beautiful ruler of her own domain, Joiry; somewhere in late medieval France. "Quest of the Starstone", says that she lived circa 1500 CE. Her adventures continually involve her in dangerous brushes with the supernatural. In her afterword to the collection ''The Best of C. L. Moore'', the author stated that Jirel and her earlier creation Shambleau, both represented idealized imags of herself. Significance These stories are among the first to show the influence of Robert E. Howard on sword and sorcery, and among the first sword and sorcery stories of any kind. They also introduced a female protagonist to the genre. Stories * "Black God's Kiss" (October 1934) * "Black God's Shadow" (December 1934) * "Jirel Meets Magic" (July 1935) * "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Fears The Devil?
''Who Fears the Devil?'' is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American author Manly Wade Wellman. It was released in 1963 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,058 copies and was Wellman's only book released by Arkham House. The collection consists of all of Wellman's Silver John stories that had been published at the time. They had all previously appeared in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. Wellman contributed new short sketches to the collection. The book is dedicated to Wellman's friend, the North Carolina folkorist and musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Darrell Schweitzer has described the book as a classic of fantasy literature, stating ''Who Fears The Devil?'' "has genuinely enriched the field because of its unique subject matter and Wellman's heartfelt enthusiasm for it".Darrell Schweitzer, "Wellman, Manly Wade," in ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', edited by David Pringle David Pringle (born 1 March 1950) is a Scottish science fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worse Things Waiting
''Worse Things Waiting'' is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Manly Wade Wellman, with illustrations by Lee Brown Coye. It was released in 1973 by Carcosa in an edition of 2,867 copies, of which 536 pre-ordered copies were signed by the author and artist. Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines ''Weird Tales ''Weird Tales'' is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in late 1922. The first issue, dated March 1923, appeared on newsstands February 18. The first editor, Edwin Baird, printe ...'', ''Strange Stories'', ''Unknown (magazine), Unknown'', and ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. Awards *1975, World Fantasy Award, Best Collection/Anthology. Contents Foreword by the author * "The White Road" (poem) PAGES FROM A MEMORY BOOK * "Up Under the Roof" * "Among Those Present" * "The Terrible Parchment" * "Come Into My Parlor" * "Frogfather" * "Sin’s Doorway" * "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
