The Fantasy Hive - A U.K. Wonderland
A hub for all things fantasy (plus some SF). Book reviews, games, author interviews, features, serial fiction- you name it. The Fantasy Hive is a collaborative site formed of unique personalities who just want to celebrate fantasy. Btw, the SFF novel to the left by one of our members, Warwick Gleeson, was a "Top 150 Best Books" Kirkus pick in 2019.
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Welcome intrepid adventurers to Tough Travelling with the Tough Guide to Fantasyland! That’s right, we’ve dusted it down and brought back this feature (created by Nathan of Fantasy Review Barn, revived by our friends over on Fantasy Faction, then dragged kicking and screaming to the Hive). It is a monthly feature in which we rack our brains for popular (and not so popular) examples of fantasy tropes. Tough Travelling is inspired by the informative and hilarious Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones. Fellow bloggers are absolutely welcome to join in – just make your own list, publish it on your site, and then comment with the link on this article! This month…
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Hearken now, mere mortals, for these are words scribed by no mere amphibian. Nay, this quill be betwixt the elegant if somewhat wrinkled fingers of Ulesorin the Green, mightiest mage in all the lands. The fact that I must don the sewn costuming of a newt on occasions such as every time I wish to leave my private chambers is in now way a reflection on my own newtliness. Yes, my beloved readers, it is true. Using the most tried and tested methods of curse breaking – waiting several months for it to wear off on its own – I have been returned to my bearded and bipedal form, providing me with the very hands that I now use to write this missive. In the beginning, I was of cou…
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“’What I want to say is that I hope Siss is telling the truth. And even six or seven of you could be a problem, frankly. If you start changing things, it could ruin our ecology. Your technology might overwhelm our civilisation.’ ‘Indeed it will,’ said Peg. ‘But is your way of life so fine? Dare to dream of more than grubbing in the mud. Yoke, we bring you the power to alter matter with a touch of mind. This is a power our god Om bestows upon us – a power she now sees fit to grant to you. You’re lucky. Thanks to Shimmer’s having been decrypted here, Om has noticed you. Your race will live as sorcerers.’” Realware (2000) is the final volume in Rudy Rucker’s Ware tetralogy…
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What are you supposed to do when you have lost the war and every possibility of victory has been absolutely, thoroughly annihilated? Tasha Suri’s debut novel is a rich, heady dive into a Mughal-inspired world of magic, tradition, divinity, and power plays. Mehr is the cherished older daughter of a governor losing the games set by her step-mother, which see her beloved younger sister used as a harness with which to control Mehr’s impetuous ways. Her mother’s heritage, the magic which courses through her blood, is heretical; a link to the gods of the past who attempt to manifest through sand storms. She escapes this net to be ensnared in a much more dangerous one, when…
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Hi, folks! Today’s splendiferous video review doesn’t have a script as such, but I’ll attempt to summarize the five point I bring up in the review above, in case you’d rather not watch through the video (but please do, it’s fun!): The Far Wild is a fantasy thriller, meaning that it borrows from the conventions of both genres. The worldbuilding, with its empires and kingdoms and airships, brings a number of delightfully fantastic elements to the table–a secondary world it was a joy to get lost in! The generic thriller elements, meanwhile, are evident in the struggle the novel’s characters face–first against the Far Wild itself, a world fill with dangers that make the ver…
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