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Most fantasy careers in the Tolkienesque high-fantasy are beginning now, with authors like Michelle Klautau (two novels), Raphael Draccon (two novels), Estus Daheri, and Jorge Tavares, among plenty of others.
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So, I am now working on my own fantasy series, one set in Medieval Europe with a high-fantasy feel.
R.I.P. Kage Baker grrm 2010
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To the obsessed high-fantasy fan, that approach might seem like mincing around the question of (as at least one online essayist put it) "plagerism."
Penderwicks 2009
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It is a must for de Lint completists and, actually, for all high-fantasy and folkloristic fiction fans.
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Even more to the point, AD&D can do high-fantasy heroic games without sacrificing the ability to do everyman games, which is something that it has over 4e.
Why Complain About 4e? Stop the Edition Wars! « Geek Related 2009
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We've also taken a bunch of high-fantasy tropes and rewritten them with beard lice and mud and backbreaking domestic labor.
April 22nd, 2009 matociquala 2009
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'Brooks concludes the High Druid of Shannara trilogy ... in an equally rich and riveting high-fantasy style ....
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Matte, I think you're confusing a fairy tale with a high-fantasy sort of novel. "clashing gory climax and vanquishing of evil" sounds more like Conan, or Kull the Conqueror than it does Stardust, or other fairy tale stories.
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It is a must for de Lint completists and, actually, for all high-fantasy and folkloristic fiction fans.
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I am working on a high-fantasy novel while at the same time tinkering with a corporate assassin story and a magical realism type story about the literal Second Coming of Christ on a Motorbike.
How does one classify themselves anyway? wendigomountain 2008
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