6/26/2023 0 Comments The tough guide to fantasyland![]() ![]() In an extended metaphor, the readers (or viewers or players) are tourists authors are tour guides, and their stories are sight-seeing tours or package holidays to this Fantasyland. Its conceit is that the fantasy worlds depicted in many fantasy novels, games, and films are identical, although tours visit different places such as provinces of Finland. Unusually, the book presents itself as a tourist guidebook its title alludes to the Rough Guide series, The Rough Guide to Finland and so on. ![]() "Our job was to decide whether each entry was necessary, to suggest new ones, to discuss whether some of the entries made sense (many didn't), and to provide examples in support of what each entry said." Description While hospitalized in 1994, she and Chris Bell worked on projected entries for the The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Clute & Grant, Orbit Books, 1997). ![]() The inside back cover of the revised edition is a 2006 postscript by Jones, "How I Came to Write This Guidebook". ![]()
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