![]() ![]() ![]() There was a tiny bit of romance too-a forbidden attraction between Ennek, the son of a dictator, and Miner, the prisoner Ennek saves. A dark fantasy, set in a city-state in an alternate universe, with wizards and sailing ships and a forbidding keep. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that when I generated my very first novel, Stasis, it was a fantasy too. And yet the best fantasy books also tell us something about human nature, even when the people in the story happen to possess magical abilities or pointy ears or dragon-scaled tails. But maybe also the promise of endless possibilities-journeys through the wildest reaches of the human imagination. I so want to be him when I grow up! I’m not sure what attracts me so deeply to this genre. Tolkien, Le Guin, Beagle, Lewis, Zelazny, de Lint, Cooper…. I had an abiding love affair with horror-mostly centering on Stephen King and Peter Straub-with occasional sidetrips elsewhere (yes, I admit to hiding out with a friend and reading Flowers in the Attic). ![]() What kind of books did you inhale when you were a kid? ![]()
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