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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: Everyone loves a rogue
. . . and that’s why everyone loves Robin Hood. What is a rogue, exactly? The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language gives this as its first definition: “An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.” But… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: Robin goes to the movies, the theater, the game console. . .
Robin Hood doesn’t just live in books. He didn’t start out in books, and he has not stayed safely between book covers. Robin gets around! Robin Hood Goes to the Movies A number of sites rank the Robin Hood movies… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: Revisionist Robin Hood
DAY FOUR of Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026, and we move to revisionist takes on the Robin Hood legend. This category is a bit unfair, because almost all Robin Hood retellings in the contemporary world are revisionist in one way or… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: Others in the ‘Hood
You think Robin Hood retellings, you’d be perfectly justified in thinking they’re going to be about Robin Hood, am I right? And they are. They are. But a lot of them don’t feature Robin as the main character in the… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: A Good Robin Hood Read Is Hard to Find
Today, DAY TWO of FAIRYTALE FANTASY WEEK, I take a look at some of the many recent Robin Hood-themed recent novels and comment on two of them. Every year during the week including Valentine’s Day, this blog explores a theme… Continue reading
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Fairytale Fantasy Week 2026: I just want a good Robin Hood book. . .is that too much to ask????
Fairytale Fantasy Week starts TODAY here at fantastes.com. We love Robin Hood. Don’t we? So why is it so hard to find decent fantasy written or filmed about/around the popular rogue? I know I say I’ll never write about Disney,… Continue reading
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It’s almost fairytale fantasy week 2026
This year’s theme: fantasy novels and fantasy-related novels inspired by the folk ballads about Robin Hood. Every year, I pause any serious stuff for fairytale fluff. . although there have been times over the past years when the fairytale theme… Continue reading
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Celebrating National Lego Day
I hope there’s an International Lego Day too, but here in the U.S., it’s time to celebrate one of the best, most creative toys ever invented, the Lego brick. The toy was invented by a company in Denmark in 1949… Continue reading
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Have a great holiday!
In whatever form you celebrate, or by whatever name, I hope yours is a happy one. I had fun finding all the quotations from great speculative fiction for my “advent” calendar. Now I realize, though, that I picked them all… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 24, 2025
Russell Hoban’s eccentric masterpiece, Riddley Walker, was published in 1980. Push past the weird spellings. Read it aloud to yourself if you have to. A must-read. Continue reading
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