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<p>You can’t say it’s not imaginative. Voyage Intemporel is an early BD (1982) of Sergio Macedo’s that depicts a realm of celestial beings who take an interest in the spiritual evolution of life on Earth and become alarmed when humankind &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2019/08/14/voyage-intemporel-timeless-voyage-buddhism-in-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Fantasy as a dedicated genre didn’t really exist in Greece till very recently. Many of the stories gathered in The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy, dating from the 19th century to the turn of the 21st, are by mainstream literary &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/the-dedalus-book-of-greek-fantasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I was keen to read David Mitchell’s new novel because I loved Cloud Atlas. Like that masterpiece, The Bone Clocks comprises six novella-length sections each narrated by a different character in a different time period. But these narratives are closer &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/david-mitchells-the-bone-clocks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Do you remember, if you’re old enough, the beautiful painted illustrations on the covers of fantasy and science fantasy novels in the 1980s? Each would depict a scene capturing both a moment in the story and the essence of the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/the-light-of-eden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>You know that feeling of discovering an author you’ve never read before who really hits your buttons, so you want to seek out everything they wrote? It doesn’t happen to me as much as it used to, my taste having &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/forbidden-ecstasy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>‘Hopeless is a strange, gothic island off the coast of Maine, cut off from the rest of reality for the greater part.’ So write Tom and Nimue Brown, the authors of Hopeless, Maine, a unique series of graphic novels. The &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/deep-sea-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Originally posted on <a href="https://thebardicacademic.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-puzzle-of-the-wood/">Dr Kevan Manwaring </a>: <br />? This was the late, great novelist Robert Holdstock’s flash of genius &#8211; one that came to him in a writing workshop in Milford-on-Sea in 1979, which resulted in an award-winning short story (1981),&hellip;</p>