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There was a game he could see and another he couldn’t, and he would play them both.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

July 3, 2021 by Emmalita 7 Comments

My formative King Arthur works were the 1963 Disney movie The Sword in the Stone, and 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When I discovered Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, as a preteen, my life as a reader of fantasy and romance was set. I’m a King Arthur enthusiast, but not a purist (except for Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 King Arthur – great cast, beautiful visuals, terrible movie that should never have been marketed as “historically accurate”). Hearing that a work is a retelling of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: advance reader copy, Alex Segura, Alexander Chee, Anthology, Anthony Rapp, arthurian legends, ausma zehanat khan, Daniel M. Lavery, Jessica Plummer, ken liu, king arthur, Maria Dahvana Headley, NetGalley, nisi shawl, Preeti Chhibber, roshani chokshi, S. Zainab Williams, Sarah Maclean, silvia moreno-garcia, Sive Doyle, Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, trans author, waubgeshig rice

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:65 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, Alex Segura, Alexander Chee, Anthology, Anthony Rapp, arthurian legends, ausma zehanat khan, Daniel M. Lavery, Jessica Plummer, ken liu, king arthur, Maria Dahvana Headley, NetGalley, nisi shawl, Preeti Chhibber, roshani chokshi, S. Zainab Williams, Sarah Maclean, silvia moreno-garcia, Sive Doyle, Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, trans author, waubgeshig rice ·
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