Mythopoeic Awards: Finalsts List

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the 2011 Mythopoeic Award finalists. Winners will be announced at Mythcon 43, August 3-6, 2012, in Berkeley, California.

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature:

The Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon) The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday) The Heavenly Fox, Richard Parks (PS) Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor) Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award . . . → Read More: Mythopoeic Awards: Finalsts List

Real, Surreal, and Somewhere in Between

That seems to be where we find ourselves this morning, going through the review bin.

There’s a certain kind of humor that makes its home in the land of the bizarre, in which the surreal is played for laughs, as in Good Omens, that classic send-up of just about everything from Terry Pratchett and Neil . . . → Read More: Real, Surreal, and Somewhere in Between