fantasy
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The Art of Prophecy Brings Martial War Artists to Their Knees
As legendary war artist Ling Taishi watches the teenaged prophesied hero of her nation, Wen Jian, perform in an over-decorated gladiatorial arena, she quickly realises that the boy is the worst of all possible outcomes. A deluded, over-indulged, under-trained teenage dirtbag. So much for being the child warrior the Zhuun needed to defeat the Eternal…
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The Mirrored Politics of SciFi and Fantasy
Fantasy, especially secondary world fantasy, is a genre about imagination, creating new worlds with different views of everything from culture to economics to the limits of physics, and in many respects, presuming no limitations at all. In that imagining (to paraphrase Max Gladstone), it implies a critique, a perspective on our present reality.
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The Wheel of Time Brings in Killing Eve’s Ayoola Smart for Season 2
Amazon’s live action adaptation of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time novels adaptation premiered late last year to a solid reception. With a second season already locked in, fans of the books are looking forward to what characters and story elements from the novels the show will bring in, and another of the show’s new additions…
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DC and Marvel Comics’ Pride Month Plans Are Not Created Equal
When Pride Month rolled around last June, both Marvel and DC were ready with special content focusing on their respective LGBTQIA+ characters. This upcoming June will be no different, although one publisher seems to be celebrating Pride Month much, much more heartily than the other, and I’ll give you one guess which is which. Meanwhile,…