{"id":1030,"date":"2007-08-08T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/08\/08\/tough-guides-to-fantasyland-and-the-known-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T16:10:11","slug":"tough-guides-to-fantasyland-and-the-known-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Tough Guides to Fantasyland and the Known Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve known about Diana Wynne Jones’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland<\/i><\/a> for a while now. The book is a fabulous tour through the clichés of fantasy novels, from Eternal Quests to Dark Lords to Magic Swords. It’s written in the form of a tour guide, with the reader taking on the role of tourist to a strange new land.<\/p>\n

What I hadn’t<\/i> seen was The Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy<\/a>. It’s focused on SF tropes, from The Fall of the Empire to Libertarian Militarists. I can see this eating giant chunks of my spare time. When I have spare time, that is. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve known about Diana Wynne Jones’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland for a while now. The book is a fabulous tour through the clichés of fantasy novels, from Eternal Quests to Dark Lords to Magic Swords. It’s written in the form of a tour guide, with the reader taking on the role of tourist to … Continue reading Tough Guides to Fantasyland and the Known Galaxy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t