Sunday morning at MythCon, and I took it easy, only getting to "Harry Potter as Dystopian Literature" for 10:00. Kris Swank framed Harry Potter not only in terms of the latest dystopian craze in YA fiction (Divergent, The Hunger Games), but also with the dystopian tradition of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. The Dolores Umbridge-corrupted …
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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 …
Matthew Rettino 