Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can only exist among people who found their relationships upon it. Title: Powers Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Genre: Fantasy Year:2007 As with Voices, the second book in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore series, knowledge of previous books in the series [...]
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The dark came down on the world and world moved on. The gunslinger . . . dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle. Title: The Gunslinger Author: Stephen King Genre: Dark Fantasy Year: 1982 [...]
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What peace I had, what understanding I had, came from my love for the Waylord and his kindness to me, and from books. Books are at the heart of this book I’m writing. Books caused the danger we were in, the risks we ran, and books gave us our power. The Alds are right to [...]
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“This adventure will test the nature of the world.” Title: The Etched City Author: K. J. Bishop Genre: Fantasy/Surreal/New Weird Year: 2003 K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City is one of those books that are at once both obvious and perplexing when trying to assign to any one genre. It’s undeniably fantasy in the same way [...]
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“I have a conscience, but it’s a feeble, withered shred of a thing. It couldn’t protect you or anyone else from a stiff breeze.” Glokta sighed, long and hard. . . “You could not even guess at the things I’ve done. Awful, evil, obscene, the telling of them alone could make you puke.” He shrugged. [...]
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