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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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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 23, 2025
Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas, 1987–the first book in the magnificent Culture series. Banks is a superb writer, not only of SF but of conventionally realistic novels as well. Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 22, 2025
Kim Stanley Robinson published The Ministry for the Future in 2020, a cautionary tale for our planet on the brink. The book is chilling and in my opinion necessary. The novel is one among many, and one of the best,… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 21, 2025
Cecilia Holland, widely admired for her historical fiction, published her only SF novel, Floating Worlds, in 1976. It ought to be better known! It is one of my favorites. It’s a space pirates novel. It’s the Mongol Horde in space.… Continue reading
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A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 20, 2025
Extremophile (2024), Ian Green’s novel of cyberpunk dystopia, bioterrorism, wild heist/caper shenanigans, and more! more! is a delight. It was short-listed for the 2025 Arthur C. Clarke Award. A great, gritty read. Continue reading
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