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*LOL*. Yes, Rune, if you started reading The Tooth Fairy expecting it to be YA you would be very surprised. Glad to hear you are enjoying Joyce as he is one the best contemporary fantasists. That's probably his best book but I also recommend The Facts of Life which won the WFA last year for...

Damn you JP and your plush Christmas Cthulhu avatar! You made me snort my morning coffee all over my keyboard!!

I'm enchanted by this haunting book. She writes in a mannered quasi-Austenian style as a subtle technique to imbue the work with an eeriness and otherworldliness that I'm finding very compelling. In other words, she isn't just imitating the 19th-Century style for the sake of imitating the...

I’m about 250 pages into Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke and count myself as one of the enthusiasts.

I'm now reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I bought this a few months back and started it then, but was stalled by an increasing workload, which is a shame because it's deserving of all the praise it has received. I'm back into it now and enjoying it immensely. Cheers, Luke.

No writer has, as far as I know, ever gone as far as Tolkien did in the creation of the maps and the languages and the histories and the mythologies of an invented secondary world. Nor do I think any modern writer could. Tolkien received a classical education, was a professor of ancient...

Re: Oktoberbookfest Hey JP, Poul Anderson certainly rocks. The Broken Sword is up there as one of my all-time favourite fantasy novels. Lots of great, ball-tearing action and beautifully evoked middle ages setting where Christianity is driving back the old pagan world of myth and legend...

I'm something of a luddite, so thanks for the tip. I look into it. Reynolds' book has me flailing my limbs with such wild geeky abandonment that I'm likely to accidentally kick anybody in the face if they come near me.

Hello. Second post on this here board. For some reason these pages load unbearably slowly on my spyware riddled laptop. Reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. So far, it's so good it makes me want to kick myself in the face.

JP - His answer to the po-mo question is what I would have expected. In fact, both Matt and I said similar earlier on in that dead cities thread. If all fantasy is a response to modernity, as R.S. Bakker asserted, then that seems to ignore the problem that socialism is an ideology firmly located...