The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland PDF Author: D. Jones
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417767625
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For use in schools and libraries only. Written in travel-guide format complete with maps, this is both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the fantasy genre and an indispensable guide for writers.

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland PDF Author: D. Jones
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417767625
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Written in travel-guide format complete with maps, this is both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the fantasy genre and an indispensable guide for writers.

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780886778323
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This authoritative A-Z guide constitutes an essential source of information for all who dare to venture into the imaginative hinterlands, providing acute insights into such subjects as: the varying types of virgin, why High Priests are invariably evil, how Dark Lords always have minions, and why Cooks all have filthy tempers. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a veteran Fantasyland traveler, "The Tough Guide to Fantasyland" has everything you need to get the most from your Tour, including: what to do when you're captured by a Goblin, where to find a Healer when you're stricken with the dreaded plague, and how to obtain the magic sword which will protect you from those pesky Barbarian Hordes.

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Vista Publishing (MN)
ISBN: 9780575601062
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568659510
Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Satirical observations on the characters, settings, and narratives found in fantasy literature presented as a guidebook in dictionary format.

Deep Secret

Deep Secret PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312868596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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A fast and witty new fantasy novel about the magician in charge of Earth, who maintains the balance between positive and negative magic for the good of all.

The Fractal Prince

The Fractal Prince PDF Author: Hannu Rajaniemi
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429986638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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"The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of "fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he's running out of time. In Hannu Rajaniemi's sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe...and we discover what the future held for Earth. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dark Lord of Derkholm

Dark Lord of Derkholm PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062244566
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.

Fire and Hemlock

Fire and Hemlock PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110156699X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.

A Tale of Time City

A Tale of Time City PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101567007
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl. . . .

Reflections: On the Magic of Writing

Reflections: On the Magic of Writing PDF Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062219901
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces chosen by Diana Wynne Jones before her death in 2011 is essential reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the fantasy genre and creative writing in general. The volume includes insightful literary criticism alongside autobiographical anecdotes, revelations about the origins of the author's books, and reflections about the life of an author and the value of writing for young people. Reflections features the author's final interview, a foreword by award-winning author Neil Gaiman, and an introduction by Charlie Butler, a senior lecturer in English at the University of West England in Bristol.