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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 ...
Blurring the lines between science fiction, fantasy, horror and spiritual speculation, this compilation of 14 magical and supernatural tales is as entertaining as it is edifying." It singles out "The Plum Blossom Lantern," the title story, and "Voices in an Empty Room" as particularly noteworthy. [3]
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]
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 ...
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.
A legendary school of black magic run by the Devil himself, located in Hermannstadt (now: Sibiu, Romania). Located in the mountains, south of the city Sibiu, near an unnamed lake. Siniawis: A region in the World of Darkness or underworld. [16] Yardna: A body of flowing fresh water that is suitable for ritual use as baptismal water in Mandaeism ...
Magic in those days was almost instinctual and inborn; it was an art. Those days ended with Merlin, the last of the old wizards, famous for his mentorship of King Arthur and the realm of Camelot. When he withdrew from the world, magic itself began to withdraw, and the wizards retreated from human sight.
Magic (1996) is a collection of short stories and essays by American writer Isaac Asimov, all within (or concerning, in the latter case) the fantasy genre, collected and released after his death. The first seven stories are part of his Azazel series , while the remainder are three more traditional medieval fantasies and one mystery story from ...