Past the Dragon
Clifford StummeWe're changing lives by learning about sci-fi/fantasy literature. Come for the essays and original stories. Stay for the memes.
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100 Most Influential Fantasy Titles of All Time
All of literature is an ancestral tree stretching back to the very first stories. And Fantasy has the most ancient tree of any genre.
I studied the rings of this family tree in my essay on the 8 eras of fantasy literature:
And inspired b...
The Most Disappointing Fantasy Novel to Ever Break the Genre
What do readers want from a good Fantasy book?
Based on Goodread’s top 2024 Fantasy Releases list, I’d guess thorough world building, heroic characters, technical magic systems, a couple mythical beasts, and a liberal sprinkling of smut....
Tolkien Gives George R. R. Martin the Smack Down or Why Happy Endings in Fantasy Are a Requirement
Welcome to Week Four of and I dissecting J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories.” So far, Eric has written about Tolkien’s definitions of good Fantasy storytelling and world building, I’ve written about how Fantasy helps us recove...
Good Fantasy Makes the Real World Better
Welcome to Week Two of and I dissecting J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories.” Last week Eric discussed what Fantasy meant to Tolkien and why good world building is vital to suspension of disbelief. I highly recommend you read t...
The 8 Eras of Fantasy Literature: A Short History of Magical Subversion and Rebellious Storytelling
I came alive in grad school when I studied G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown detective stories and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise because both authors wrote stories that deal in ideas. Father Brown is an empathic detective who re...
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A writer and fun guy (with the tortured soul of a third-rate poet). I'm fascinated by speculative stories that leave me a richer, fuller person. Posthumous fame is for suckers, but if you're reading this after I'm dead, thanks anyway.
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