“So … do we call you Peet?” Janner asked, fishing for more answers to his mounting questions. “Is that your real name?” The Sock Man stirred the boiling pot with a long wooden spoon and didn’t answer. The Igibys stared at him in an awkward silence. “What’s a real name?” Peet said finally. He pointed…
Month: February 2012
CSFF Blog Tour: When Pop Culture and High Fantasy Collide
In my review of Realms Thereunder, I said that Ross Lawhead was like D. Barkley Briggs in rejecting the ideal Elves of Tolkien for the ambiguous fairies of folklore. There is another way in which they are similar: Both invoked pop culture in their fantasy novels. I’ve been pondering this. Is it a bad idea…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Realms Thereunder
He’s a homeless man living on the streets of Oxford, trying to eat and yearning for the realms thereunder. She’s an Oxford student with a lifetime of lies and an abundance of compulsions – dreading every day the realms thereunder. It’s hard to say which of them has the bigger problem. As children, Daniel and…
Character Profiles: The Masked Hero
“We’ve come to save you. This man in the ridiculous black costume – ” “It art not ridiculous, thou pigeony person!” ” – is the Florid Sword. Or you can call him Gammon, like I do.” – Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows The Florid Sword was a dashing hero in black, jumping down…