Fantasy

The One Where Robb Gets Some: A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Hbo, Entertainment, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Books, Media, Fantasy, Game of Thrones Recap, TV News

While a few other things did happen, it wasn't exactly the most action-packed of episodes. This episode was clearly the calm before the siege.

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Dear HBO, That Was Awesome: A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Hbo, Television, Entertainment, Game of Thrones, Books, Genre, Tv, George R. R. Martin, Fantasy, TV News

If Game of Thrones continues in this vein, the show may actually overcome its reputation as a gratuitous-gore-and-sex fest and become one of HBO's all-time greatest shows.

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Spooky or Jokey? 10 Favorite YA Fantasies

David Kudler | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Young Adult Literature, Fantasy Books, Young Adult Fantasy Books, Young Adult Fiction, Books, Fantasy, Books News

My teen daughters and I are all voracious readers of fantasy, and we found ourselves discussing our favorite titles in terms of which camp they'd fall into. Here's the list we made.

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Tessa Farmer's Savage Fairy World

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Natural Museum, Video, Taxidermy, Fairies, Danielle Arnaud, Tessa Farmer, Insects, Female Artists, Slideexpand, Fantasy, Arts News

Insect corpses, taxidermy, tree root and superglue are the primary components of London-based artist Tessa Farmer’s intricate sculptural installatio...

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"The Ghost of Harrenhal": A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Hbo, Women, Television, Game of Thrones, Feminism, Fantasy, Tv, George R.R. Martin, Books, Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones Recap, Game of Thrones Episode Recap, Books News

This episode had a recurring theme dear to my heart: Women being awesome. And by "awesome" I don't just mean brave and heroic, though that's here to some degree, too. I mean interesting, and forging independent paths for themselves.

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Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir at Kling and Bang, Reykjavik

Kari Adelaide | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Games, Works on Paper, h.p. Lovecraft, Reykjavik-Iceland, Art, Fantasy, Sculpture, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Her work engages with the expression of human ways, three-dimensional forces, and unearthly things, and her chorus of yellow and crimson-eyed creatures may drink from a poisoned chalice, or deal us clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades.

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'Garden of Bones': A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: George R.R. Martin, History, Television, Garden of Bones, Game of Thrones, Torture, Fantasy, Books News

There are spoilers ahead for "Garden of Bones," the latest bone-sawing, chest-devouring, rape-with-a-sceptre-ing(?) episode of Game of Thrones.

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Critique of Ice and Fire: A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Hbo, Television, Game of Thrones, Sex, Books, Genre, Tv, Violence, George R.R. Martin, Fantasy, Books News

Maybe the showrunners are worried that if there's no sex in a scene, we'll get bored and check our email, due to the much-touted Death of the American Attention Span. But there is some great acting.

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'Maple and Vine' Offers Breezy Journey to a Less-than-idyllic Time

Leo Stutzin | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Satire, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, Theater, Act, Maple and Vine, Fantasy, San Francisco Theater, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco News

If you're sick and tired of today's rat race, just step right back into 1955. In Maple and Vine, the breezy fantasy that's earning loads of laughs, that's more than a dream. It's a possibility.

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'Popular Guys Are Husband Material' And Other Disney Lies

Thought Catalog | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Relationships, Fairytales, Disney, Childhood, Romance, Love and Relationships, Princesses, Fantasy, Women News

God, I love Disney so much. In my spare time, I have been known to create entire dances to various Disney songs, and have not yet met princess fan art...

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What's Next After The Hunger Games: 10 Young Adult Dystopias Coming Out 2012

Lisa Parkin | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Dystopian Fiction, Young Adult Literature, Dystopia, Books, Young Adult Books, New Books, The Hunger Games, Young Adult Fiction, Teen Fiction, Fiction, Upcoming Books, Fantasy, Teenagers, Books News

The number of dystopian-themed books is at its highest since the 1960s. What Young Adult dystopians are you looking forward to reading this year?

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Guy Maddin on Keyhole

Dan Persons | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Jason Patric, Regret, Paranormal, Black and White, Black and White Photography, Isabella Rossellini, George Toles, Ghosts, Surrealism, Keyhole, Guy Maddin, Gangsters, Kevin McDonald, Udo Kier, Fantasy, Entertainment News

This gangster is haunted, literally. Keyhole begins with an inversion -- a group of criminals have to fight their way past a police barricade into a house -- and only gets stranger from there.

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Loved The Hunger Games? Other Great YA Books That Adults Should Be Reading

Julie Gerstenblatt | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Suzanne Collins, Young Adult Books, Dystopia, Books, The Hunger Games, Fantasy, Ya Novels, YA Books, Ya Book Suggestions, Young Adult Book Suggestions, Young Adult Novels, Young Adult Novel Reviews, Young Adult Novel Suggestions, Books News

For me, reading YA is like having a candy bar in the middle of my lifelong diet. Here are my top picks for grown-ups who sometimes wish they could recapture their teen years or who just like reading about adolescence.

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'Face Off' Season Finale: Who Won?

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Face Off Season 2, Face Off, Canada Tv, Video, Make Up, Sfx, Syfy, Tv Replay, Sfx Artists, Horror, Ipad 3 Giveaway, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, TV News

On the Season 2 finale of "Face Off" (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on Syfy), the finalists had to come up with three designs for their models, who then performed ...

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Psychic Attacks and Obsessions: The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: The Vanishers, Paranormal, Books, Fiction, Thriller, Psychic, Heidi Julavits, Fantasy, Paranormal Thriller, Book Reviews, Books News

Bristling with wicked humor and sharp-edged irony, The Vanishers explores the ways in which the dead can haunt the living and the often painful persistence of memory.

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Fantasy, Power And The American Dream

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Fragonard, Laura Krifka Cb1, CB1 Gallery, Laura Krifka First Blush, Romance, American Dream, Lisa Yuskavage, Wizard of Oz, Rococo, Fabio, Delacriox, Female Artists, Laura Krifka, Power, Fantasy, Arts News

Laura Krifka works in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography to create fantasies that indulge our desires for power and a stable ...

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What Do Women Want: The Cinematic Wasteland of Female Fantasy (Part Two)

Erika Christakis | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Edward Bella Twilight, Twilight, Twilight Films, Twilight Breaking Dawn, Fantasy, Culture News

Well, who wouldn't want to believe that love could be so ennobling? That a person would make a sacrifice -- giving up the possibility of, oh, multiple sexual partners, let's say -- in service of a greater love? It's an appealing fantasy, and I'd like to say it's a fantasy shared equally by men and women.

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Will Write for Food

Jeff Klima | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Books, Novels, Reading, Fantasy, Books News

Is it possible to sue someone on the basis of copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property if they have been dead for 131 years? I just g...

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Memory and The Freedom Maze

Kelly Cogswell | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Delia Sherman, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Children's Books, Lesbian, Books, Freedom Maze, Gay Voices, Fantasy, Books News

Books like The Freedom Maze remind us that it's a radical act to remember -- or imagine -- the past, which is all history is, and why it's so essential.

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9 Sexual Fantasies From Real Women

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Women, Marriage, Sexual Fantasies, Relationships, Sexuality, Sex, Fantasy, Slidepollajax, Women News

Other than our skin, our brains are the biggest sex organ we have. We are supposed to use them.

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The Pioneering Genius Of Anne McCaffrey

Hans van der Boom | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Obituary, Pern, Dragonrider, Anne Mccaffrey, Dragons, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Books News

Last Monday, Anne McCaffrey passed away in her home. The science fiction world has lost an icon.

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Beautiful Nightmare: The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Magic, Dark Fantasy, Books, Caitlin Sweet, Fantasy Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Fantasy Novels, Canada Books, Fantasy Books, Books News

It should have been a relief to awaken from The Pattern Scars, after all its horrors. Yet the richness of the world, the complexity of the main character, and the intensity of her tragedy evoke memories that linger for a long time.

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Book Review: (Save The Pearls Part One) Revealing Eden

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Young Adult Books, Romance, Books, Fiction, Fantasy, Ya Novels, (Save the Pearls Part One) Revealing Eden, Young Adult Novels, Books News

What would happen if global warming continued to the point where resistance to deadly solar radiation determined class and beauty? This is the future we encounter in Victoria Foyt's captivating new novel, Revealing Eden.

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In the Halloween Queen's Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson

Dan Lybarger | Posted 12.30.2011

At 60, Cassandra Peterson has practically become the Santa Claus of the 31^st of October, so it was surprising to get a one-on-one conversation with her in costume last Thursday.

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Cinefantastique's New York Comic Con 2011: Random Hunks o' Con (Video)

Dan Persons | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Video & Computer Games, New York Comic Con, Video, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Comics, Nyc Events, Interviews, Lloyd Kaufman, Events, Animation, Traditional Animation, Bill Plympton, Troma, Borderland, Entertainment News

Cinefantastique hit the floor of New York Comic Con 2011 and discovered... people. Lots 'n' lots of people.

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