Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

Ellen Kushner

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Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer. by Ellen Kushner

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

beer people needs

Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

party hate running

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her c... by Ellen Kushner

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

cushions fists book

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

sense-of-humor honest definitions

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

fingertips fine invention

A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

heart baby country

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time. by Ellen Kushner

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

together-again together firsts

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

make-you-happy bigs dream

I'm the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you've had your head in a bucket.

buckets mean thinking

In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.

wealth privilege cities

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

cutting winter morning

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability... by Ellen Kushner

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

worthless availability said

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

real roots dark