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Fantasy For Our Time: Should We Be Inspired by the Masters or Subvert Them?
In this throwback episode, I officially get publicly and loudly angry about The Last Jedi. Seriously, though, paying homage to those masters…
Fantasy for Our Time: The Power of Story – A Conversation with Author and Illustrator Vesper Stamper
In this wide-ranging conversation with YA author Vesper Stamper, we talk about the power of story, the ways trauma can lead to…
Fantasy for Our Time: The Green Knight and the Secular Apocalypse
Generally, I like to focus on the ways that fantasy stories help form us and make us into better humans; but, is…
Fantasy for Our Time: The Best Epic Sci-fi of the Last Decade – An Interview with Christopher Ruocchio
You’ve heard me rant about bad storytelling before. And I will admit I have been a bit worried about the tendencies of…
Fantasy for Our Time: Till We Have Faces – The Fulfillment of All Heroic Journeys
C. S. Lewis’s final novel Till We Have Faces is a novelization and adaptation of the Roman myth “Cupid and Psyche.” Rather…
Fantasy for Our Time: Communal Catharsis and the Last Unicorn
In this episode of “Fantasy for our Time,” fantasy author Nicholas Kotar tackles the difficult task of addressing the war in Ukraine….