Fantasy Rising
Fantasy Rising tells the definitive story of Fantasy’s incredible ascent from the fringes of literature to a global phenomenon, through interviews with some of the genre’s most celebrated creators.
From the candlelit corners of the Romantic era to today’s multimillion-dollar franchises, Fantasy Rising traces the remarkable journey of a genre that began on the fringes of literature – a fertile, visionary form of storytelling that was dismissed for more than a century as “kid’s stuff” – and rose to dominate bookshelves, movie theaters and streaming screens around the globe.
From The Wizard of Oz, Conan the Barbarian and Middle-Earth to Hogwarts, Wonderland and Westeros, it is the thrilling saga of imagined worlds, crusading heroes and mythical creatures breaking free from the margins and ascending to the very heart of mainstream culture
