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Full details on the catering arrangements: BEER always foams and is invariably delivered in tankards (what do you mean, "it tastes awful")?.Live background on those you will meet, including: BARBARIAN HORDES, lots and lots of wild-seeming people advancing under a cloud of dust in order to devastate more civilised parts, and ELVES, who claim they did not evolve like humans.certainly there seems to be no such thing as the Elvish ancestral ape.It provides acute insights into such mysteries as how HORSES reproduce, the various types of VIRGINS and the importance of CLOAKS to those wondering about going on a quest with a fellowship (of the Ring or otherwise). This authoritative A-Z constitutes an essential source of information for all who dare to enter into the imaginative hinterlands. However, Jones's definitive work of epic fantasy remains The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, published in 1996.
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Its sequel, The Year of the Griffin, also playfully invokes the Harry Potter series by being set in a wizarding school. In 1998 she wrote Dark Lord of Derkholm, which riffed off epic fantasy. Jones wrote widely and well in a number of subgenres for decades, usually for children. Her Chrestomanci sequence is her best-known work, which started publication in 1977. Xanth is the longest-running American comic fantasy series (more books are expected for years to come, even with the author now in his eighties), but is largely unknown outside of the States.Īnother writer who started rising to prominence at the same time was Diana Wynne Jones. Anthony has also written more serious fare, most notably the epic Incarnations of Immortality sequence, but humour is never far away in his works. The books have also gathered a distressing reputation for sexism, with the bemusingly-titled fifteenth novel in the series, The Colour of Her Panties, being particularly singled out for juvenile and distasteful content. The Xanth books have some genuinely interesting and fantastical ideas, but also rely a little too heavily on puns and poor wordplay for laughs. This became the first book in the Xanth series, which as of this year stands at 41 volumes in length. This novel was set in a fantasy world which bore a curious resemblance to Florida, and was considerably lighter-hearted and more playful than its contemporaries.
In September 1977, just a few months after the double-whammy of Lord Foul's Bane and The Sword of Shannara, Piers Anthony released (via Del Rey) A Spell for Chameleon.
But some authors have made careers based on the attempt. Fantasy as a genre can be po-faced and self-parodying enough, so writing a genuinely funny book which successfully riffs off the genre without simply collapsing into lazy cliches seems a lot harder than writing a genuinely good epic fantasy novel. Good comic fantasy novels are surprisingly rare. Comic fantasy novels are reasonably common.
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