Paradise and Hell: “The Gardens of Delight” by Ian Watson
with some thoughts on the value of modesty in fiction
Phantasmion: The First Fantasy Novel
Love and grief at the dawn of fantasy literature
Rage and Revenge in Aboriginal Australia’s First Fantasy Novel
"The Kadaitcha Sung" asks whether the crimes of colonisation can ever be set right
The First Secondary World
independent fictional worlds were invented more recently than the steam train
"The Wizards and the Warriors": A Lost Treasure of 80s Fantasy
At first glance, Hugh Cook’s The Wizards and the Warriors (1986) presents a very unpromising prospect. There is the
Eden Among the Stars: Pauline Gedge’s “Stargate”
An obscure science-fantasy explores the bounds of Tolkien's legacy
Liminal Labyrinth
Magic and modernity in Margaret St. Clair's "Sign of the Labrys"
Chess, Sex and Death: Ian Watson's "Queenmagic, Kingmagic"
On sacrificial kings and cold wars
The Psychedelic Wizardry of Roger Zelazny’s "The Changing Land"
On bibliophilia, van art wizards, and integrity in fiction