Volume 1.

It has been many generations since the Battle Owls, the Warhorses and the Border Runners answered the war trumpets of the kings of Elundium, and the Krulshards, Master of Darkness, is poised to destroy Elundium. And it falls to untrained Thane, whose proud ancestry has become a laughingstock, to alert the border garrisons at distant Underfall.

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.

List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43.

In the gripping conclusion to the series, Cybernarc and his human cohorts are called in by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. military to spearhead Operation Takedown: a military attack on 112 distinct targets located in Colombia in an attempt to stop drug trafficking at its source. But the drug barons are equally prepared to destroy Cybernarc once and for all.

Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.