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Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Magic, the supernatural and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds.
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In 1938, Ziff Davis, a Chicago-based publisher looking to expand into the pulp magazine market, acquired Amazing Stories. [2] The number of science fiction magazines grew quickly, and several new titles appeared over the next few years, among them Fantastic Adventures, which was launched by Ziff Davis in 1939 as a companion to Amazing. [3]
The Fantastic Four, often abbreviated as FF, is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The team debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover-dated November 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism in the medium.
Eddings acknowledged that his wife, Leigh Eddings, contributed to all of his books, but publisher Lester del Rey believed that multi-authorships were a problem and that it would be better if David Eddings' name alone appeared on the books. [2]
Dies the Fire is a 2004 alternate history and post-apocalyptic novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling. [1] It is the first installment of the Emberverse series and is a spin-off from S. M. Stirling's Nantucket series in which the Massachusetts island of Nantucket is thrown back in time from March 17, 1998, to the Bronze Age.
Doyle earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on Old English poetry. [1]Her first work written with Macdonald was "Bad Blood" in 1988. [2] Their novel Knight's Wyrd was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1992 [3] and appeared on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list in 1993. [4]