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The Road Often Taken
"The Road Not Taken" and how authors write aliens
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Shakespeare and Tragedy in Light of Easter
"In light of this fact," Sayers continues, "the interesting question arises whether such a thing as a Christian tragedy is possible."
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Friendship as Strong Reality
Where is the friendship in modern stories?
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Offstage Villains and Telling a Balanced Story
Two books on the history of nuclear secrecy - and my sister's novella
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Medieval Historical Fantasy
The actual Middle Ages... but with magic
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The Short Fairy-Tale
We hear that things happened; we don't hear why.
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Theology in Story
Narnia and Middle-Earth
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Cross-Country Cutscenes and Dramatic Unity
They can play fast and loose with chronology and travel time to juxtapose characters in different locations - for a good reason.
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What Talking Animals Can Say
The other week, I reread Richard Adams' "Watership Down".
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In-Universe Metafiction
When the Book Exists Inside the Book
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Narrators and Perspectives
When I first reread "The Hobbit" as an adult, the thing that stuck out to me the most was the voice of the narrator.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
What's left behind after the story has developed
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