“They can keep their heaven,” George R.R. Martin once wrote. “When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”It’s a sentiment many of us share. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented world feels so real, it’s hard to believe it isn’t. Fortunately, though, we can still visit it any time we want by picking up one of the wonderful books, films, […]
While there are have been plenty of hugely popular series in recent years—Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Divergent come to mind…the series is also a hallmark of literary history. Sherlock Holmes! Nancy Drew! The Hardy Boys! Jeeves and Wooster! Readers just can’t get enough of the same good characters in new situations. Some […]
Fantasy can be a difficult genre for beginners to penetrate, and in a sense, that’s fitting. The foundations of the genre rely on invention and reinvention, pushing boundaries, and infusing the known with the unknown. Where do you even begin when the worlds are unfamiliar (and sprawling), and you can’t fight your way through the […]
