What if dragons and their riders formed their own corps of soldiers adjacent to the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars? You get Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, the first novel of which, His Majesty's Dragon, I have just finished reading on my Kobo. William Laurence, a Royal Navy captain engaged in the Napoleonic Wars, captures …
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The Secret History of Fantasy, edited by Peter S. Beagle
If you're like me, you have probably starved for an original fantasy novel. So many novels and short stories rely too heavily on The Lord of the Rings and the epic fantasy genre that spawned from it. Are there any original fantasy works that use impossible situations without having elves, orcs, and dragons run across …
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
It's an entire world just under your feet, in the vast underground networks that form the urban environment, where people who've fallen through the cracks of society vanish from our everyday reality. Such is the setting of Neil Gaiman's urban quest fantasy Neverwhere. One of his older novels, it was originally based on a 1996 …
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