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Fantasy realm consisting of an archipelago of islands in a vast ocean that forms the setting for six books and seven short stories. Earwa: The Darkness That Comes Before: 2004 R. Scott Bakker: Fantasy realm that combines alien technology with magic Eight Worlds "Bagatelle" 1974 John Varley: The Emberverse/Nantucket: Island in the Sea of Time ...
Setting of several China Miéville novels, a world where both magic and steampunk technology exist; and many intelligent races live. It is influenced by the tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Perdido Street Station: 2000: N Continent: Andrzej Sapkowski: The fantasy setting of The Witcher franchise. The Witcher: 1986: C F G N T V ...
The first volume, Wizards, 1983, cover art by Kinuko Kraft. Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy is a series of twelve themed paperback fantasy and science fiction anthologies edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, a companion set to the ten volume Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, produced by the same editors.
19th-century Romantic writers such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Nikolai Gogol, especially in their fairy tales and short stories, have been credited with originating a trend within Romanticism that contained "a European magical realism where the realms of fantasy are continuously encroaching and populating the realms of the real". [18]
Stories involving magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. Classical mythology is replete with fantastical stories and characters, the best known (and perhaps the most relevant to modern fantasy) being the works of Homer (Greek) and Virgil (Roman).
After being expelled from the magical realm of Fillory, magician Quentin Coldwater returns to his alma mater, the magical college of Brakebills, as a new professor.There he is finally given a discipline, the repair of small objects (minor mendings), and spends his spare time studying an ancient spell found in his travels through the Neitherlands, the magical space between worlds.
Golden Gate and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty; The Golden Pot and Other Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann; Golden Wings and Other Stories by William Morris; The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical by Darrell Schweitzer; Green Magic by Jack Vance
Realms of Magic, edited by Brian Thomsen and J. Robert King (paperback, December 1995, ISBN 978-0-7869-0303-0) "Prologue" by Brian Thomsen "Guenhwyvar" by R. A. Salvatore "Smoke Powder And Mirrors" by Jeff Grubb "The Magic Thief" by Mark Anthony "The Quiet Place" by Christie Golden "The Eye Of The Dragon" by Ed Greenwood "Every Dog His Day" by ...