In 'The Last Unicorn,' there are no maps, invented languages, or epic battles. But the 1968 tale has a timely message about the importance of reality over magic.

George RR Martin has revealed that he has found it hard to finish the long-awaited sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, as the rise in fame and popularity that came with the television adaptation Game of Thrones has become a “considerable weight to bear”. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian ahead of the publication of his next book, Fire and Blood, a history of the fantasy universe of his hugely popular series, Martin said he’d been wrestling with The Winds of Winter, which has been eagerly awaited by fans since the last book in the series, 2011’s A Dance With Dragons.

Alex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.

Had a paragraph that made me think twice:

Official Author Website Buy the book HERE OFFICIAL BLURB: Humans, orcs, mages, elves, and dwarves all jostle for success and surviv...

Studio says unauthorized commercial activity needs to be halted but fans liken move to Dementors sucking the joy out of fun

Earl Grey Editing reviews The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross.

Dead Can Dance

It may sound like something out of science-fiction, but it's true: More Firefly stories are on the way. EW can exclusively report…

Ursula K. Le Guin died today at 88. The author of the Earthsea novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and many others, she was and remains among the brightest stars in the sky of fantasy literature.

Useful name generators for all sorts of naming schemes. Useful outside of fantasy, too e.g. planet naming conventions in Stellaris, city naming in Civilization, army naming in EU4!

Gallery 1957 celebrates the Ghana artist’s legacy with a collaborative exhibition. By Margaret Carrigan.

I have been reading Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos novels since I was a pre-teen and singing their praises on Boing Boing since 2006, and with the occasion of the publication of Vallista, the fi…

A look at the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny and what makes them so great.

To be completely honest, I wasn't sure of what I was walking into with Tooth and Tail; I'd heard about the game a while ago when it was initially announced, thought that it looked incredible, and then mostly forgot about it until quite recently, when it came time to try it out. I knew it to be a real time strategy game of some sort featuring mice and other woodland creatures, sort of like the Redwall books of my childhood, albeit in a setting more reminiscent of the Bolshevik revolution.

A compendium of information regarding the people, places & things of Earthsea, created by Ursula Le Guin. Maintained by the Espresso Addict

Unpublished works are lost for ever with crushing of computer hard drive – as the late fantasy novelist had instructed

Jan Campbell turns avocado pits into beautiful works of art

A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.

Sony has snapped up the rights and brought on an executive producer.