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	Article: Quality in Epic Fantasy, by Alec Austin
		Ultimately, the problems which plague many epic fantasies are not a result of the exhaustion of the traditional elements of fantasy as much as a symptom of the inexcusably crude manner in which they are used on the page.
		Epic fantasy, then, addresses the sweeping and significant -- grand passions, fundamental issues of morality, the fate of the world -- displaced from the context and concerns of modern life.
		Since clichéd fantasy conventions such as prophecies and powerful companions swarming around the main characters undermine a sense of real danger, they should be dispensed with, or else used in such a way that their goals do not necessarily correspond to the main characters' best interests.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020624/epic_fantasy.shtml (3943 words)

	High fantasy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While it is far from being the oldest fantasy subgenre, high fantasy, along with sword and sorcery, has become one of the two genres most commonly associated with the general term fantasy.
		In the commonest, "low fantasy" is distinguished by the relative amount of supernatural forces in the world—low—or by its setting in the real world with fantastical elements intruding.
		When the scope is less than epic, dealing with the hero's personal fight for personal stakes against evil forces, the epic fantasy may shade into sword and sorcery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_fantasy (1074 words)

	Locus Online: Commentary by Gabe Chouinard
		Epic fantasy, as a genre built from a single trilogy, has failed miserably where its source had won out.
		Epic fantasy may be epic, but there ain't much fantasy in it.
		If we look at the series that now comprise the vast bulk of fantasy fiction (and, most certainly, the vast weight as well!), it is plain that Epic Fantasy as a whole is naught but a timid, clichéd variation on the generic, stock-in-trade aspects fostered in the wake of Tolkien's trilogy.
	www.locusmag.com /2002/Reviews/Chouinard_EpicFantasy.html (1466 words)

	writing Epic Fantasy - Advice
		Epic fantasy is a genre about heroes taking on challenges of epic proportions and overcoming obstacles that are seemingly impossible to overcome yet the genre puts out (safe) multi-volume cookie cutter novels that follow a specific formula laid out by Tolkien and Campbell.
		You are probably writing epic fantasy or thinking about writing it because of the appeal of creating a hero that you can admire.
		In Epic Fantasy the basic tenet is about having courage -courage in the face of insurmountable odds or even probable death and the courage to continue on when the path is dark.
	www.epic-fantasy.com /creativity/essay_courage.htm (776 words)

	Fantasy Fiction - What is Fantasy? -- What is Epic Fantasy? - free Suite101.com course
		Fantasy is a commercial and literary genre of Fiction with its own themes and elements.
		Fantasy is a genre that has magic, secondary worlds, mythical creatures, quests, and great battles between good and evil in most of the books.
		Fantasy is a genre to gain insights about being human or exploring the human soul by taking us out of the real world.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/17284/2862 (783 words)

	Locus Online: Reviews by Claude Lalumière
		Epic fantasy: a literary genre that promises to be the grandest of playgrounds for unfettered feats of imagination.
		Yet, in the popular mind, epic fantasy has become synonymous with a very specific type of story, a limited set of props and tropes, and a decidedly unimaginative and highly derivative setting.
		Too often, epic fantasy, as regurgitated ad infinitum by Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, Terry Goodkind, and their legions of cohorts, is an all too familiar blend of Tolkien, Arthurian myth, and Dungeons and Dragons, usually with a dash of Robert Howard's Conan and/or Anne McCaffrey's Pern.
	www.locusmag.com /2001/Reviews/Lalumiere12.html (2218 words)

	With a sword in your hand: All About Epic Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since the beginning of time mankind has made up epic fantasy stories in the form of myths to reflect his role in the universe.
		Epic Fantasy is overloaded with massive tomes that hash out the same formula.
		Epic fantasy characters are all about courage and overcoming their fears.
	hubpages.com /hub/Epic_Fantasy (760 words)

	The only epic fantasy website on the net
		Epic Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy and very similar to high-fantasy where a seemingly average person undergoes many trials and ordeals which develop him or her into a hero capable of feats needed to thwart challenges of an epic scale.
		It is not cut from the typical cloth of Epic Fantasy and Arthurian Legend yet it is deeply rooted in mythology.
		To be good epic fantasy a novel or series has to swing at these questions of our existence with a big sword or a two fisted axe; or even rain down upon them the fury of a lightning storm.
	www.epic-fantasy.com (2013 words)

	How to write a best selling fantasy novel.
		All Fantasy Lands have every conceivable form of climate and landform - mountains, deserts, swamps, glaciers, forests - arranged randomly across the landscape contrary to any known principles of geography or ecology.
		The important thing about an epic fantasy novel is that the reader must be exhausted at the end of it.
		Note that in Fantasy Lands the concept of reform or rehabilitation is unknown.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~imcfadyen/notthenet/fantasy.htm (1672 words)

	Non-epic fantasy - sffworld.com
		that is all i can think of, but you will find that most fantasy is epic, in fact it is probably one of the words you'll find somewhere on every blurb of fantasy books.
		...you will find that most fantasy is epic, in fact it is probably one of the words you'll find somewhere on every blurb of fantasy books.
		i think epic is a term that gets thrown around too much and i am very much aware that not all fantasy is epic, but most current, bookshelf stuff is.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?p=348 (733 words)

	The SF Site: Science Fiction & Fantasy -- A Genre With Many Faces
		Sweeping in scope, epic fantasy usually concerns a battle for rulership of a country, empire or entire world.
		A major subcategory of epic fantasy in which the hero endures many hardships while retrieving an object of power that will defeat the enemy.
		Charles de Lint is one of the primary authors of urban fantasy.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/amy26.htm (1190 words)

	Epic Fantasy is on the verge of a big change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Epic fantasy is the genre of asking the big questions and taking on the challenges of what being human is all about.
		That was the big question and this was reflected in the first wave of epic fantasy and the book most representative of this would be the epic of Gilgamesh.
		Around the middle of the twentieth century the fourth cycle of epic fantasy was born and it continues to this day.
	www.todays-woman.net /article1519.html (982 words)

	Growing tired of Epic Fantasy... - sffworld.com
		My opinion on epic fantasy is that a work is not judged merely on complexity.
		Fantasy is such a diverse genre, much more than the Epic Fantasy.
		Just had a quick look at the Alternative Fantasy thread which has some fine recommendations of stuff that is not 'epic fantasy' and well illustrates the diversity of Fantasy.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=12047 (1926 words)

	Creating the Fantasy World
		Today's fantasy market is expanding at great rate, and rather than have me repeat what I think the reasons for this are, read my paper on creating the modern romance epic.
		We cannot believe in fantasy or magic in our scientific world — we're not allowed to, therefore to be believable (for the reader to be able to suspend disbelief) we must set a fantasy novel in a new world (or in our past, pre-scientific world).
		Readers want to be able to relate to the fantasy world, they want to be able to place themselves within it, thus is must be as much like ours as possible (that way that can almost believe that our world might be like the fantasy world).
	www.saradouglass.com /createw.html (1146 words)

	epic - GameSpot
		Epic Games demonstrates Gears of War on the Xbox 360, Unreal Tournament 2007 on the PS3, and talks about taking the programmer out of Unreal Engine 3.
		Epic Games' Xbox 360 shooter now shipping to retail, expected to be widely available by Sunday.
		Epic has remained quiet about its new first-person shooter, but we make time at this year's Leipzig Games Convention to talk UT2007 with the developer.
	www.gamespot.com /pages/tags/index.php?tags=epic (1155 words)

	Epic Fantasy: The Five Essentials - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		The contest involves a group of gamers playing in an epic fantasy adventure, and the prize will be awarded to the gamer who best captures the flavor, spirit, and tone of epic fantasy in his or her roleplaying.
		To me, "epic" fantasy generally means high stakes, powerful magic, and good vs. evil as central trope.
		I'll second that conan is not epic fantasy, it's sort of an epic life he leads, ending up as a king but well, not epic fantasy as in Good vs. Evil and so on.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=40767 (1432 words)

	Fantasy Lore
		Author of various short stories in the fantasy and dark fantasy genres, and in currently working on her first novel Frozen Flames.
		This illustrated ongoing fantasy story deals with the adventures of four friends who find themselves in a world they never knew existed and the unexpected role they find themselves playing in it.
		A humorous mix of sci-fi and fantasy involving three inept Dwarves, a two-headed ogre, a dictator, an alien war fleet and some Mexican Guitarists in a lift...
	q.webring.com /hub?ring=fantasylore (1391 words)

	Building Stories, Telling Games
		Last time, I started talking about the genre of fantasy, with specific attention to the subgenres of epic fantasy and swords and sorcery, and the "generic fantasy" popularized by DandD.
		A subgenre of historical fantasy is "secret history" fantasy — in it, fantasy elements exist, but were/are kept secret.
		These are examples that are more on the fantasy side; in later columns, we'll be getting to examples that are more on the SF side, and ones that are firmly in no-man's-land.
	www.skotos.net /articles/BSTG_25.shtml (1130 words)

	Less than Epic Fantasy - Reaper Message Board
		Probably the two greatest fantasy stories of the 20th century are both pretty much big and epic "Save the Universe/World".
		Epics certainly have a place, but I feel most of us can relate more to the "small" stories.
		For me it doesn't matter of the story is epic or not; it matters if the story is engaging, interesting, perhaps thought provoking.
	www.reapermini.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5078 (2889 words)

	Castle Fiction - Epic and Heroic Fantasy
		Epic fantasy has a long history, and there are classics in the genre that have gone into the public domain.
		One of the mightiest of contemporary fantasy epics continues.
		a written history of Epic Fantasy that tells you about some of the famous authors and works in the genre.
	www.castlefiction.com (1440 words)

	The Cauldron: Discussion for fans of author Elizabeth Haydon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On the run from an old romantic interest who won't take no for an answer, Rhapsody literally bumps into a couple of shady characters: half-breeds who come to her rescue in the nick of time.
		Only the rescue turns into an abduction, and Rhapsody soon finds herself dragged along on an epic voyage, one that spans centuries and ranges across a wonder-filled fantasy world-a world so real you can hear the sweet music of Rhapsody's aubade and smell the smoldering forges deep within the Cauldron.
		A in high fantasy at its best, the sense of foreboding is palpable, the world building is convincing and consistent, the evildoers are truly wicked, and the battles are ferocious.
	www.epic-mag.com /cauldron (224 words)

	Fantasy Lovers Webring
		Fantasy writing by Charles Alexander Moffat, four full-length novels, numerous short stories and 1 novella.
		The official website of fantasy writer, Fran Jacobs, and the only place where you can read extracts of her forthcoming novel, the Shadow Seer.
		He is mainly interested in fantasy literature, but does not limit himself by genre.
	p.webring.com /hub?ring=fantasyloversweb (838 words)

	Non-epic fantasy games? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
		There is always an epic struggle such as good and evil, multiple quests that stand in the way of the hero, a journey of the hero(s), a final struggle to bring the epic tale to an end.
		But fantasy is not synonymous with epic (I think that's the point of this thread, anyway).
		WWII is indeed epic, but the typical WWII game revolves around you and/or your men only involved in relatively small operations (or only being a small part in a larger operation).
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/viewreply.asp?ID=2432727 (3661 words)

	Epic Fantasy - page 1 of 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Many especially love those that are epic in nature.
		Epic or High Fantasy is one the biggest categories of the Fantasy genre.
		Epic Fantasy books are distinguished from other categories by certain points that define these types of books.
	www.epicsff.com /articles/04/10/epicfantasy (404 words)

	Epic Fantasy vs. Sword and Sorcery - RPGnet Forums
		Seriously: I think many modern (by which I mean post-Tolkien and post-Howard, not necessarily new) fantasy novels, while they're often sold as echoes of Tolkien, have a lot more in common with the Conan stories [multiple protagonists, but with traditional-novel structure and a focus on character and action instead of plot and backdrop].
		It seems to me, that "epic" fantasy is/was fantasy that operated on a moral basis, while "sword and sorcery" was/is more pragmatically minded.
		The "epic" model was, I think, more British - T H White, Tolkien, Lewis, all writers using the fantastic to make broad, moral points about the world.
	forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?t=1510 (1500 words)

	Powell's Books - The Hallowed Hunt: A Novel by Lois McMaster Bujold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An acclaimed legend in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid and perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with an epic tale of devotion and strange destiny.
		"The absorbing third installment in Bujold's epic fantasy series (after The Curse of Chalion and the Hugo-winning Paladin of Souls) links a disinherited swordsman hero with a beguiling damsel accused of murdering a royal prince in a land worshiping five gods, menaced by encroaching neighbors and swarming with ancient magic and lethal political intrigue.
		Her previous novel, The Curse of Chalion, was on the final ballot for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel and it won the Mytheopeic Award.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0060574623 (743 words)

	Epic Software: Aranker, Majinwar: The Evil Secret, Avernum 2, ...
		An epic fantasy fighting-adventure with lots of action, multiple enemies at a time, and even friends by your side.
		Avernum 2 is an epic fantasy role-playing game, featuring a huge world, multitudes of puzzles and quests, and a fascinating storyline.
		Arvale: Journey of Illusion is an epic role playing game, with over 20 hours of game time, six immense continents with 280 maps to explore, 200 different monsters to fight against, and over a hundred different items, weapons, and magic spells to use...
	www.criticalfiles.com /free/epic (634 words)

	Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy \| Fantasybookspot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In chapters entitled Origins, The Exotic Landscape, The Heroes and Heroines, Wit and Humour, Epic Pooh, and Excursions and Developments, Moorcock sets forth and develops his thesis: good fantasy should allow for self-reflection and self-understanding, as well as wit, epic elements, irony, poetry, objectivity, metaphor, and insight into the human condition.
		The work is full of lines that cause thoughtful pauses, such as: "A writer of fantasy must be judged, I think, by the level of inventive intensity at which he or she works." (Wizardry, p.
		And certainly it takes no small amount of courage (or conceit) to confront the pillars of fantasy's temples, asking readers to reconsider their favorite authors and works.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /node/269 (765 words)

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