Realms of Imagination: Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy

by Tanya Kirk (Editor), Matthew Sangster (Editor)

Other authors: Brian Attebery (Contributor), Cristina Bacchilega (Contributor), Greg Buzwell (Contributor), Dimitra Fimi (Contributor), Rachel Foss (Contributor) — 15 more, Wendy Froud (Contributor), Neil Gaiman (Preface), Chris Gardiner (Contributor), Sophie Gosling (Contributor), Maria Dahvana Headley (Contributor), Marina Dahvana Headley (Contributor), Lucinda Holdsworth (Contributor), Robert Maslen (Contributor), China Mieville (Contributor), Laurie Penny (Contributor), Susan Reed (Contributor), Sofia Samatar (Contributor), Ann Vandermeer (Contributor), Marina Warner (Contributor), Terri Windling (Contributor)

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Fantasy is an expansive genre, wrought of epics, folklore, strange worlds and forays into horror. In this book of essays, which accompanies the British Library exhibition, twenty authors have mustered to explore four key themes; fairy and folk tales; epics and quests; weird and uncanny; portals and worlds.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Kirk, Tanya	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Sangster, Matthew	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Attebery, Brian	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bacchilega, Cristina	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Buzwell, Greg	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fimi, Dimitra	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Foss, Rachel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Froud, Wendy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gaiman, Neil	Preface	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gardiner, Chris	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Gosling, Sophie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Headley, Maria Dahvana	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Headley, Marina Dahvana	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Holdsworth, Lucinda	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Maslen, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mieville, China	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Penny, Laurie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Reed, Susan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Samatar, Sofia	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Vandermeer, Ann	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Warner, Marina	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Windling, Terri	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Fantasy is an expansive genre, wrought of epics, folklore, strange worlds and forays into horror. In this book of essays, which accompanies the British Library exhibition, twenty authors have mustered to explore four key themes; fairy and folk tales; epics and quests; weird and uncanny; portals and worlds.

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