Fantasy

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Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates early Rome
The unlikely heroine of "Lavinia" leaps out of the Aeneid and brings an ancient culture -- deeply bound by "duty, order and justice" -- to life.
Salon Book Awards 2007
From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.
The accidental heretic
I'm a devoted Catholic and a huge Philip Pullman fan. Can a church that condemns him still embrace someone like me?
I'm addicted to Harry Potter fan fiction!
Every moment I'm alone, I'm secretly reading the stories, the forums, the recommendations. I can't stop!
Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.
What happens when authors like J.K. Rowling can't stop telling their own stories?
"Dragon Wars": Made in South Korea
A globalization goodie: Either the best, or worst, Korean fantasy epic set in modern Los Angeles, ever.
L'Engle's last wrinkle
Madeleine L'Engle wrote children's books that were too complicated for grown-ups. I'll miss her.
Potterpalooza
For the Quidditch players, wizard rockers and would-be witches who gathered at a New Orleans Harry Potter convention, this is the dawning of their summer of love -- and loss.
Back to the future
Science fiction promised us a tomorrowland of jetpacks, Smell-O-Vision and male mammary implants. So what happened?
Killer smog invades children's fantasy
Pollution is evil in China Mieville's newest novel. The kids will understand.
"Un Lun Dun"
The imaginative world of an alternative London created by China Mieville just may take adults back to their slack-jawed, book-drunk days of youth.
Let's get it on
Does marriage smother sex? Author Esther Perel talks about how to unleash erotic desire inside long-term relationships.
Fantastic friends
Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism.
"Strange Itineraries" by Tim Powers
The combination of Powers' noir-existentialist worldview with elements of SF, fantasy and literary fiction makes these nine stories truly unique.
"The Hidden Family" by Charles Stross
In this second novel in "The Merchant Princes" fantasy series, past, present and future collide as investigative journalist Miriam Beckstein navigates parallel universes -- and alters the course of history.
When Harry Potter met Jane Austen
Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" combines the dark, wild spirit of English fantasy with the grand wit and high style of the 19th century social novel. It's a grand performance -- and the most sparkling literary debut of the year.
Perfect Circle: Chapter 3
"Look, this chick, she is after you. I mean, your car is the last thing she ever saw. The dead are like that. They get fixated." The third excerpt from Sean Stewart's ghostly page-turner.
Perfect Circle: Chapter 2
I never walked down a ghost road myself. There are some places we just aren't meant to go. Our second excerpt from cult novelist Sean Stewart's unearthly thriller.
Perfect Circle: Chapter 1
Ghosts are all different, like demons, not all the same, like zombies. They all want something. If you've got the sense God gave a cockroach, you stay away from them.
Archaeologist of lost worlds
Overdosed on Harry? Had it with hobbits? Steven Erikson's sweeping 10-volume series, "The Malazan Book of the Fallen," might be just the fantasy epic that adult readers have been longing for.
"The War of the Flowers" by Tad Williams
This stand-alone fantasy adds the plight of the modern American man to its mix of heroic goblins, marauding dragons and evil fairy lords.
"Snow Glass Apples" by Neil Gaiman
Listen to a full-cast radio production of Gaiman's twisted adaptation of "Snow White," starring Bebe Neuwirth.
Interview with Michael Chabon
The author of "Wonder Boys" talks about his new book, "Summerland," a children's fantasy story steeped in Native American mythology and -- of all things -- baseball.
Can you Riverdance for me, honey?
At New York's fetish salons, it's all about fantasy -- some guys want to sniff you and others want to watch your feet move in clogs.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone""
The long-awaited movie is faithful to J.K. Rowling's book, but the fantasy isn't very fantastic and the evil just isn't dark enough.
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