The Faces of Fantasy

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A beautiful, well-crafted book, filled with photographs and frustratingly tiny autobiographical messages of well-known fantasists, too light on bibliographies and lacking organization.

Reviewed by David on February 22, 1999

Genre: Nonfiction (Photography, Fantasy)

Full Review: The book allows a glimpse at the authors whose fancies enchant and chill us. The personal messages are, in some cases, all too brief, frequently superficial; and the photographs are black and white, and occasionally too obscure.

However, technically, both the photographs and the book construction are excellent; and despite the haphazard organization and skimpy bibliographies, the whole somehow fits well together. The evocative pictures, and the sometimes playful, sometimes self-conscious messages allow the reader to experience the pleasure, and a touch of enchantment, represented by the impressive library written by the authors featured in this sleek book.

The book has an introduction by Terry Windling, and has pictures of such favorites as Steve Brust, Emma Bull, C. J. Cherryh, Pamela Dean, P. C. Hodgell, Patricia McKillip, Elizabeth Moon, Tim Powers, Michael Scott Rohan, Caroline Stevermer, Gene Wolfe and Patricia Wrede.

Overall: 6; Originality: 6;

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