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Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise
I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … Continue reading
The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy
Fantasy as a dedicated genre didn’t really exist in Greece till very recently. Many of the stories gathered in The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy, dating from the 19th century to the turn of the 21st, are by mainstream literary … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Fiction
Tagged Aris Sfakianakis, David Connolly, fantasy, Greek fantasy, Makis Panorios, surrealism, Tassos Leivaditis
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Myths, Genres, and Forms in Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is a landmark of literary criticism to which I found my way via its influence on the Tolkien scholarship of Tom Shippey and Margaret Anne Doody’s superb book The True Story of the Novel. Frye’s … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Literary criticism
Tagged Anatomy of Criticism, Deep Time, Fiction, forms, genres, myths, Northrop Shippey, The Lord of the Rings, Ulysses
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David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Fiction, science fiction
Tagged Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, novel, pastiche, The Bone Clocks
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Lewis Spence and the Problem of Lemuria
If, like me, you love myth and folklore, you may know Lewis Spence as the author of numerous books, in the early twentieth century, about the mythology of different parts of the world. I find his books more readable and useful … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Prehistory
Tagged Gondwana, Lemuria, Lewis Spence, Pacific Ocean, Sundaland, The Problem of Lemuria
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A Critical Mass to Escape Dystopia
Do you ever feel oppressed by the relentless coercion to spend ever more of your time online, staring at the screen, jumping through the hoops imposed by organisations of every kind? Do you detect the synergy between this and the … Continue reading
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Archaeopteryx – by Lorna Smithers
Originally posted on Signposts in the Mist:
Archaeopteryx, I call to you kindly through layers of stone. Geological time is not the history of the victors. No! It does not lie or exploit. I pass through time as I pass…
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