Of Magic and Men

[Knightfall]

Check out the link to this great fantasy-related article on Time Online Edition. - KF72

Susanna Clarke's ravishing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is a superb post-Potter fantasy for grownups
By LEV GROSSMAN

Monday, Aug. 16, 2004
Fantasy may be the greatest comeback story of the past 10 years. A decade ago, nobody wanted anything to do with it. All that stuff — swords and sorcery, dungeons and dragons — was so nerdy even science-fiction fans looked down on it. Science-fiction fans had Star Wars. Fantasy had — what? Willow?

Now all that has changed... (See link in 3rd post)

 

[Knightfall]

Darn link doesn't want to work. ARGG!

 

[Knightfall]

I give up...

Go here and scroll down for the link to the article. Look under More Stories.

Plus here is the official website: http://www.jonathanstrange.com/

 

[Berandor]

Cool. I'll probably try the book now.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Sounds interesting. I'll add it to the "To be read" list.

 

[nikolai]

I posted a thread about it here - which was pretty much ignored. I'll obviously have to work on my pitch...

http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=96936

This includes a link to the first chapter. It's due for a massive marketing campaign, with the publishers doing their best to make it the next big thing.

 

[ddvmor]

This looks excellent. It's about time someone wrote some decent fantasy of this kind for grown-ups! Pullman's great, but not quite meaty enough!