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Ian Miller illustrated Michael Crichton’s EATERS OF THE DEAD. Here are his illustrations of the GORMENGHAST from Realms Of Fantasy
Richard Mantool@richardmantool
We need to have a conversation about how insanely badass mass market paperbacks used to be.
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@uskglasses @belladonnafeli I used to just read them in a single sitting before bed. Lovely comfort read
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@kharkanas @belladonnafeli she's so great i need to read more, and the books are all quick reads too
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some examples of soft worldbuilding/soft magic system fantasy from the past few years. modern fantasy is not all islington and sanderson dupes!
umar 🌾🍂🦬@uskglasses
i actually don't think modern fantasy publishing is dominated by hard magic & over-worldbuilding. Impressionistic "soft" worldbuilding abounds, it just gets far less marketing. maybe of note: the former space seems to be largely white men, the latter women & POC
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Ursula Le Guin criticizes J. K. Rowling, yet stole her whole thing. 🙄
Immortan Joe Mazzulla@normal_jake_
she cooked lmao
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Edward Robert Hughes
(UK, 1855-1914)
Night With Her Train Of Stars, 1912
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 1922
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 1922
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the most influential piece of writing wisdom for me is ursula k. le guin, who wrote a dozen books about guys sailing, saying:
“Yeah idk, i've never been in a boat. I was just sort of guessing”
umar 🌾🍂🦬@uskglasses
this is how fantasy should operate. the physical/temporal feel unreal but are grounded by the humanity. I think too often fantasy authors opt for the reverse
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Still got enough in the tank for a Champions League win before he departs I reckon.
Mohamed Salah@MoSalah
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Finally arrived at the closing chapter of this enigma:
The Anathëmata: a plague journal
Ryk@kharkanas
February (and probably March) read
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"It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Tears and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together.
My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name."
—Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
🎨 "Wizard of Earthsea" by Rebecca Guay
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