Sentences with phrase «as a fantasy novel»
The story I started with Protector (Anniversary of the Veil, Book 1) can only be told as a fantasy novel.
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If you wrote a literary fiction book that is 5 % fantasy, you pitch that thing as a fantasy novel.
Originally starting out as fantasy novel series back in 1986, it has had a number of manga and anime adapations in Japan, with the most recent one that was brought over by Funimation as a 25 - episode anime series acting as a basis for the game in question, Arslan: The Warriors of Legend.
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As an evangelical Christian, I read the Book of Mormon, and I consider it a 2nd - rate fantasy novel.
But MacDonald's work was not limited to fantasy and myth, he also wrote novels such as Robert Falconer and The Seaboard Parrish.
People haven't begun reading more but they've begun reading, one might say, better: sales of thrillers, romance novels, and fantasy have declined as demand for serious literature has grown.
The Once and Future King has just been reissued in a reasonably attractive deluxe hardback edition as part of Penguin's Galaxy series of modern science fiction and fantasy novels.
I once heard the bible being referred to as being the most successful fantasy novel of all time.
The most common mistake the computer made was misclassifying horror novels as either science fiction or fantasy — perhaps not so surprising given the ambiguity between those genres.
She writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for adults and children, and is known as a prominent voice for the asexual community.
Japanese eroge, also known as H - Light novels or hentai games, have their origins in the early 1980s, when Japanese companies introduced their own brands of adult mmo, adult mmorpg, mythology / fantasy sim notes for memory triggers: Between the 10th century BC and the beginning of their exile in 586
The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..
Charlie, previously known for his portrayal of Sienna Miller's younger brother in Casanova, was cast by director Matthew Vaughn as the impetuous Tristran in the big - screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy novel.
Vilmos Zsigmond's sensual cinematography renders the remote Irish countryside of Cathryn and Hugh's getaway estate as an evocative wonderland right out of a fantasy novel.
George R.R. Martin's fantasy cycle A Song of Ice and Fire — five very large novels deep now — is concerned with impassioned monarchs and their desperate ministers, as well as the deformations wrought by their egotistical wars.
He serves as the primary antagonist of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, as Thorin Oakenshield assembles the Company of Dwarves and hires the burglar Bilbo Baggins to regain the lost Dwarven kingdom (and its treasures) from Smaug.
As Nichols scathingly sums up the novel, «a fantasy this mundane is barely a fantasy at all — just a desire to be unjustly rewarded for mediocrity.»
The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.
But then Jackson isn't interested in a faithful interpretation of Tolkien's novel as much as backfilling a prequel story to The Lord of the Rings, transforming the novel's story of legacy and destiny warped into greed and hubris, a grand fantasy adventure with dragons and trolls and Shakespearean dimensions, into the initial stirrings of the evil Sauron and a war that will engulf the world and all the races.
Ever since I stumbled across his 1997 debut film Cube, which still stands up (despite its lesser sequels) as a very novel approach to cerebral horror or dark fantasy or violent sci - fi... -LRB-...)
When: March 9th Why: I had never even heard of Edgar Rice Burroughs» series of pulp fantasy novels when a «John Carter» movie was first rumored a few years ago as a possible directing project for Jon Favreau, but after seeing the initial trailer, I was sold.
Longtime Screen Rant readers are aware that several members of our staff were disappointed with Alice, for reasons that run deeper than the distracting post-converted 3D and its recycling of Burton / Depp tropes; such as, how it trades in the discernible characters and satire of Carroll's novels for an ambitious (but, sadly, non-compelling) fantasy allegory where many dark Underland inhabitants and CGI backgrounds blurr together.
It seemed a bit odd when Ava DuVernay was announced as the director of Disney's adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's seminal children's fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time.
For the past few months, Neil Gaiman has been hard at work on Good Omens, Amazon's upcoming adaptation of his and Terry Pratchett's 1990 fantasy novel, which stars David Tennant the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale.
While he initially planned to act as producer for an adaptation of The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien's first novel and the world's introduction to that fantasy realm — Jackson eventually decided to take over as director.
SIFF held its opening night in Benaroya Hall (for the first time) with a typically SIFF opening night film: The Extra Man, with Paul Dano as twentysomething literature teacher Louis Ives, a shy young man mired in sexual confusion, a fantasy life born of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and the eccentrics in his Manhattan apartment building, notably his roommate.
If J.R.R. Tolkien weren't so famously averse to allegorical readings of his fantasy novels, one could be so bold as to suggest an «America as savior» reading of the conclusion to the titular battle, wherein simply the appearance of the eagles seems to imply that the enemy has been vanquished.
Following a new poster for Ready Player One earlier this week [take a look here], we now have an international trailer for Steven Spielberg upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline's cult sci - fi fantasy novel, as well as a series of character posters featuring Parzival (Tye Sheridan), Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zhao), Daito (Win -LSB-...]
That's the premise and the plot of this wildly absurd and just as wildly entertaining action fantasy, adapted from a misanthropic graphic novel and directed by Timur Bekmambetov («Nightwatch») with unhinged momentum and unrestrained spectacle.
In addition to holding down a day job as a board game photographer, Scott is the author of several middle grade fantasy novels, a thriller, and a couple of non-fiction titles, including this newest one.
She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).
New York Times bestselling steampunk / fantasy author Gail Carriger joined us this week to talk about writing and marketing for traditionally published novels as well as her experiences self - publishing novellas and short stories.
As the author of five fantasy novels, all of which are currently sold on Amazon, I am not without experience in the area of text editing when it comes to finalizing one's fiction book for publication in one form or another.
I also employed a very light drift of fantasy in my adult novel The Uncoupling, as well as in a book for middle - grade readers about kids who meet at a Scrabble tournament, called The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.
It's another powerhouse (and perilous) year for sf / fantasy, as these novels, all reviewed between May 15, 2012, and May 1, 2013, in Booklist, illustrate.
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Tonight we chatted with fantasy author Abigail Hilton about making money from Patreon, audiobooks, and web comics as well as full - length novels.
Bestselling fantasy author Tracy Hickman has done an «exclusive subscription novel series» where fans get to come into a special membership area and see the chapters as they're written, and even offer feedback along the way.
If Amazon is alerted as to the potential «obscenity» of a self - published sex fantasy novel it bears legal liability (up to 10 years in prison per work in some states, fines in others) if it does not remove that work.
About as unlike Hairy London as it's possible to get and still feature here, Kit Reed's Little Sisters of the Apocalypse is a novel that treads the indistinct boundaries between fantasy, science fiction and realism, as befits an author who describes her work as «transgenred».
I do have one self - pubbed novel, but it's a mainstream book with a narrower audience, so I wouldn't expect it to sell as well as the fantasy books.
So I've decided to merge all my urban fantasy novels, previous published under the name Loralie Hall, to be released as Allyson Lindt's books.»
International authors such as Leon de Winter and Connie Palmen, the author duo behind the Iny Lorentz historical novels, and the fantasy - novel writer Markus Heitz will make literature a real experience for visitors.
If you are writing a sci - fi or fantasy novel as your 2013 NaNoWriMo project, we would like to invite you to submit your finished product to StoryBundle for our first ever NaNoWriMo mini-bundle.
Amazon classifies the novel as a war and military, science fiction fantasy, and First Contact and is only 378 pages.
I'm thrilled to welcome Sandra Unerman to the Guest Blog next Monday — all the more so as her contribution coincides with the publication of her new fantasy novel Spellhaven.
A first novel, brilliantly imagined and written, incorporates elements of traditional British school stories while never sacrificing the fantasy element as orphan Harry Potter learns he is a wizard.
This should include information about the intended market such as Writers of the Future submission, YA novel, adult historical fantasy, etc..
It isn't just t fantasy that has been building up a slew of poor indie novels, the genres have as well.
So, on the writing front, having about 97 % of the first time readers returning to buy the movie optioned novels and many coming back to purchase all 9 novels in the series, even crossing over to my YA fantasy series just to keep reading can be used as a measure of success.