Tag Archives: fantasy

Fantasy Doesn’t Embrace 21st-Century Modernity

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Rawle Nyanzi

My Twitter buddy Benjamin Cheah recently wrote a long Facebook post about the new Beauty and the Beast movie, criticizing it for allegedly portraying 18th-century rural France as more progressive than it actually was. In response, a commenter (who did … Continue reading →

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An Appreciation for the Fantasy Genre

Posted on October 9, 2016 by Rawle Nyanzi

I had begun my Appendix N Review Series as a way to see how the fantasy genre in the 1950s through the 1970s was different from today’s genre. Going in, I wasn’t sure what to expect — I expected to … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Appendix N Review Series

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Rawle Nyanzi

Through my reading of the Castalia House blog and other blogs, one name kept coming up whenever the history of sci-fi and fantasy was mentioned: Appendix N. Apparently, this was a list of works and authors that inspired Gary Gygax … Continue reading →

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Frank Frazetta Is 100% Correct

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Rawle Nyanzi

The late Frank Frazetta speaks the truth. How did we ever allow the dour puritans of Social Justice to shame us even a little bit?

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