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C. J. Cherryh's Ealdwood Stories [citation needed] and The Fortress Series [10] Kate Constable's Chanters of Tremaris series [5] Glen Cook's The Black Company series [11], Sung in Blood [12] The Dread Empire series [citation needed] Susan Cooper's [6] The Dark Is Rising [4] Alison Croggon's Pellinor series [5]
The term "high fantasy" was coined by Lloyd Alexander in a 1971 essay, "High Fantasy and Heroic Romance", which was originally given at the New England Round Table of Children's Librarians in October 1969. [2] The Well at the World's End (1896) by William Morris is an early example of high fantasy fiction. Many high fantasy stories are told ...
Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956), author of Hawk of May (also writes historical fiction and science fiction novels) Ernest Bramah (1868–1942), author of the Kai Lung stories; Libba Bray (born 1964), author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy; Marie Brennan, author of Doppelganger; Peter V. Brett (born 1973), author of The Painted Man and The Desert Spear
High fantasy novels, a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. High fantasy is set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the "real" or "primary" world. This secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of ...
“When I started reading them, I was in a season where (dark, epic fantasy) stories just overwhelmed me and made me more anxious,” Hood says. “With a cozy fantasy, when I open it up, I know I ...
Setting of multiple video games, including Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Final Fantasy XII. Final Fantasy Tactics: 1997: A R V Krynn: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, and numerous others: Setting of the Dragonlance games and novels, Dungeons & Dragons RPG. Dragons of Despair: 1984: G N V C F Kulthea ...
It was the advent of high fantasy, in particular J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, which allowed fantasy to truly enter into the mainstream. Tolkien had published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s; while the first was a fairy tale fantasy, the second was an epic fantasy that expanded upon the ...
Romantasy novels meld high fantasy with steamy love stories to the delight of readers, like Sarah J. Maas’ “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and Rebecca Yarros’ “Fourth Wing.”