Cyan Worlds Inc has announced on the forums for Myst Online that they will be bringing the original Myst to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is a small project that probably a very few of you know about. We are porting Myst to the iPhone. Ok, before some of you start groaning, this is [...]
Before we get started here, let me introduce myself. I’m Matt Harzewski (a.k.a. “redwall_hp”). I’m a web designer and developer, card-carrying fantasy fanatic, and the founder and editor of Fantasy Folder. I got into fantasy when I read the first Harry Potter book several years ago, and have been reading fantasy novels ever since. You [...]
After Moiraine’s prophetic hint at the end of The Eye of the World, we’re pretty sure that Rand is The Dragon Reborn. In Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt, the main overarching story arc starts to really get moving. When the book starts in Shienar, it is quickly apparent that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, the [...]
Fans of the Lord of the Rings films by New Line Cinema (which was recently acquired by Warner Brothers) were disappointed when they learned that Peter Jackson, the director of the prior three films, would not be directing The Hobbit. You may already know that the movie’s director will be Guillermo del Toro, but according [...]
Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars is a, shall we say different, take on Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s very different. Very different. This is nothing like Caroll’s decidedly odd, and not particularly interesting (in my opinion) book. This is real fantasy, not Carroll’s weird stuff. The book opens in Wonderland’s largest city, Wondertropolis, [...]
Warner Brothers has just announced that the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie has been delayed. Instead of being released November 21st this year, it has been moved to July 17, 2009. Warner Brothers states that their reasons for the change “are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for [...]
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come to pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past…” A few months [...]
“Stories never really end, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” – Inkspell Stories never end, as Cornelia Funke says…especially when there’s a sequel. The villain Capricorn may have been defeated in Inkheart, [...]
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, which is the first of a trilogy oft referred to as “The Inkworld Trilogy,” is based on a novel concept, and was an interesting and very enjoyable read. It was translated from German, but the translation is excellent. In Inkheart, Meggie and her father, Mo, are on the run from a villain [...]
The His Dark Materials series is set in an alternate world, separate from ours, yet quite similar. The story starts in a part of Oxford, England, but a different Oxford than the one in our world. Overall it’s similar to the Oxford of our world’s Victorian Era, but slightly more technologically advanced, and in a [...]
