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Tag: Fantasy

  • Favorite Book Series: Science Fiction, Double Feature

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    Science fiction and fantasy are the gateway into expressing some of our most creative and imaginative ideas. It’s exciting, intriguing, and a possible look into the what could be and what we want to be. We here at the University Press love to delve into those fascinating and surreal worlds.…

  • “The Hobbit” Novel and Film Review

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    In Middle Earth there lived a very small hobbit, who was destined for a very big adventure. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit in 1937. The novel is about the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and how he joins forces with a band of dwarves and the wizard Gandalf to…

  • “Jack the Giant Slayer” Film and Novel Review

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    *Potential Movie Spoilers It is quite possible that anyone who used to have bedtime stories read to them as a child had “Jack and the Beanstalk” read to them at one point. The old English fairytale is so well-known that it has spawned numerous versions across the ages. Benjamin Tabart…

  • The Hobbit

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  • 8-Bit Theater

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    Written by Matthew Pardue At first I wasn’t sure what to review this week. I didn’t have another book lined up (I started reading the Aeneid last night, but that’d be a weird thing to do here, even if I was anywhere near finished with it), and all my Discworld…

  • A Dance with Dragons

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    So here we are, the last released book in the series. I’ve got to say that I’m ready to get back to 300-page novels, ideally standalones (I cannot describe how much I appreciate Terry Pratchett’s Discworld now that I’ve waded through A Song of Ice and Fire). What should I…

  • A Feast for Crows

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    This week we have A Feast for Crows, fourth in the series A Song of Ice and Fire and also a rare fantasy novel to grab the top spot on The New York Times best seller list. Despite all that, the book annoyed me. I liked it (mostly), but some…

  • A Storm of Swords

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    Written by Matthew Pardue About midway through last week, I talked with a fan of the A Song of Ice and Fire series who has also read one or two of my reviews of the books. We soon found that we have different opinions about it: she prefers the novels…