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By Anthony Nanson So the twelve stories in The Firekeeper’s Daughter are threaded together by this theme, even though each story involves...

fionatinker Book Review:  A Dance with Hermes, Lindsay Clarke    (Stroud: Awen, 2016.) It is somewhat difficult to know where to begin...

From Peneverdant In his introduction, ‘A Note at the Threshold’, Clarke writes about his creative process. As a poet and polytheist I...

<p>Among the leading figures of the British storytelling revival, Hugh Lupton is one very worthy of ecocritical attention. Shows such as On Common Ground (performed with Chris Wood) and The Liberty Tree (performed with Nick Hennessey) passionately engage with the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/the-ballad-of-john-clare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

By Anthony Nanson compelling case for regarding as steampunk (among other things). Indeed, back in 2012 Kevan promoted the previous...

<p>I’m conscious this blog tends to wander off a bit from its declared focus on the exotic and the prehistoric. So let’s get back to basics – and a look at another prehistoric movie classic. I never saw this film &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/creatures-the-world-forgot-and-maybe-for-a-reason/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

Hermes, the messenger god, will be celebrated in a ‘power-poem’ presentation at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution...

<p>I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the &hellip; <a href="https://nansondeeptime.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/valerian-and-laureline-and-the-dream-of-paradise/">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>

by Kirsty Hartsiotis When I first saw the cover image for Charlotte Hussey’s Glossing the Spoils, that’s exactly what I thought we had....