While J R R Tolkien has been described as having many successors in the field of epic fantasy, few are as deserving of this title as Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay. Kay in fact assisted Tolkien’s son Christopher in the editorial construction of the unfinished, posthumously published The Silmarillion but is better known now as the author of the three books that make up the epic fantasy trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry (The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road). While the eighties unfortunately gave us a number of trashy Tolkien-wannabe novels, Kay’s trilogy towers above most of the genre due to the quality of his writing and, crucially, the time and love that he invested in the creation of the fantasy world of Fionavar, one of the most iconic and copied of all imaginary fictional realms.
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White Planet
The first volume of 'The Ice World Chronicles'
Blogroll
- Abattoir
- Abomination
- Albedo One
- Allegory
- Aphelion
- Black Static
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Cygnus
- Dark Discoveries
- Dark Moon Books
- Dark Tales
- Encounters Magazine
- Fantasy Magazine
- Interzone
- Locus
- Prime Books
- Realms of Fantasy
- Strange Horizons
- The Black Library
- The Edge
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- The Realm Beyond
- Weird Tales
- #Manga - wp.me/p21O69-hS 1 week ago
- #MayDay - wp.me/p21O69-ia 3 weeks ago
- #WorldsWithoutEnd - wp.me/p21O69-hN 1 month ago
- #Angels - wp.me/p21O69-hH 1 month ago
- #JamesPBlaylock - wp.me/p21O69-hB 2 months ago
Top Posts & Pages
- George R R Martin: Genius or Hack?
- Manga: The Enigma of Anime
- King Arthur: Fact or Fantasy?
- Stormbringer: Elric of Melniboné
- Merlin: The Man behind the Myth
- The Art of Alan Lee
- In the Company of Wolves
- Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings
- Tad Williams: The American Tolkien?
- Contact
- Dark Legends of the Distant Steppes
- The Dark Art of the Necromancer
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- Rites of Spring
- Worlds Without End
- Angels in America
- James P Blaylock – Steampunk Legend
- One Hundred Realms
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- Memories Become Legend
- Beware the Loa!
- The Long Defeat
- 2012 in review
- The Box of Delights
- Reavers of the Seven Seas
- Carnivàle
- Happy Birthday…
- The Great Harry Potter Controversy
- The Golden Age of Kids’ TV
- Castles in the Air
- By the Power of Grayskull!
- Thomas the Rhymer
- The Era of Excess
- Durin’s Folk
- Duncton Wood
- Egypt’s Divine Kingship
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- Uncategorized
- Urban Fantasy
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Blogs I Follow
- Edwardhu111's Blog
- Winson Chiu (The Manga Creator)
- Ultimate Spoiler Attack
- Flying over a forest
- Judith Shaw - Life on the Edge
- Amber Lotus Publishing
- Faerie♥Kat's Faerie♥Korner
- Scattering the light
- The Keya Quests blog
- The Always Hungry Bookworm
- SCC Library Reads
- The Writer's Wand
- Books and Adventures
- Hellar Reviews
- Raging Biblio-holism
- Nada Faris | Blog
- Zendagi Migzara !
- Trees-Per-Second
- melanie bourgeois, illustrator and conceptartist
- Books On Trial
- MAHEEKATS
- Laura Bruno's Blog
- efrona's blog
- Ozark Pagan Mamma
- The Dancing Hare
- The Raven and The Oak
- stormyviews
- The Rowdy Goddess
- SCOD Public Blog
- Ravemore's Notes
- Life hands us the lemons, now where's the vodka?
- Summer Thunder
- A Witchy Life
- Temet Nosce
- PNC-Minnesota Bureau
- Fanny Fae
- Marlene Dotterer
- ChibiSketches
- Robwired
- Daniel Delgado's Blog
- litbeetle
- Bloggity, Bloggity, Blog
- Zcreed
- skylatron
- Reviews and Ramblings
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- The Write Edge
- shelflifepodcast.wordpress.com
- The Place to Be ...
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