Tag Archives | Supernatural

Unbelievable Stories in Fantasy and Science Fiction… Or… 3 Pills Lucy Found Hard to Swallow

This week I’ve invited my daughter Lucy Wright to take a swing for us in the fantasy and science fiction world.  Lucy revisits the topic of the pill to swallow in fantasy and science fiction.  In our first installment on this subject, I sited some examples where the pills went down easy and the stories […]

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A Classic Christmas Fantasy… By Dickens!

Time travel, ghosts, entities from another dimension. Now that’s great fantasy. But you mostly don’t think of Charles Dickens. More’s the pity. Fantasy A Christmas Carol is classic literature… and classic fantasy.  The novel has what fantasy needs:  Memorable characters going through extraordinary circumstances while facing daunting odds but eventually coming out victorious. In this […]

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Is Magic Necessary in Fantasy?

  Is magic necessary in fantasy?   My first inclination is to say, “I hope not,” because my book Curious Origins of a Restless World has no magic. Before you think, “Well, who would want to read that?”, at least stick with me through the end of the blog.  Why?  Because whether having magic or […]

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