Fantasy fiction
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Philadelphia Forever, 2021
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Identifier: wr_2021fall_fleischer_evan.pdf
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"Set in an alternate present, 'Philadelphia Forever' sees four characters explore the implicit question as to how one 'makes' and 'unmakes' a place. An amoral real estate agent, a melancholy mobster, an insightful teenager, and a happy cook test the figurative waters of a city filled with serendipity with the help of a robotic basketball player and a sentient cloud. Some embrace the serendipity. Some attempt to erase it. All of them live in Philadelphia." -- Abstract
Dates:
2021
Queen of Smoke and Mirrors, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_ferraro_isabella.pdf
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"Narcissa of the Rift has grown up wanting only one thing—to become the Advisor to her brother's royal crown. She has spent her entire life proving herself to be the most qualified for the role. The problem? Her brother isn't convinced. When a group of rebels that call themselves The Crux begin to threaten the very crown meant for her brother's head, Narcissa commits herself to the task of defeating them, certain it will prove her worthiness. But when the magical Mirror of Fates goes...
Dates:
2023
"Sad Men", 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023summer_wilson_christopher.pdf
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""...the world has become ambiguous...[it] is encroaching and trying to consume everything," says Hayao Miyazaki. The world is ambiguous and we are confused. In the absence of good answers, we must learn to ask better questions. "During childhood when children don't have much power but feel angst," says Miyazaki, "fantasy gives some kind of salvation." Just as children find salvation in fantasy, so too can adults—and no dragons required. The eleven stories in this collection examine the...
Dates:
2023
Salamangka, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_paranada_daryl.pdf
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"What would make you give up the real world to live in paradise? That question is at the heart of my 83,000-word Young Adult novel Salamangka. When 15 year olds Marisol Garcia and Yussuf Yacoubi discover a magical portal to a colorful utopia, they must make a choice: live forever in paradise or at home. Life in Los Angeles is tough for these teenagers, who face discrimination and other issues that make living in the fantasy world Salamangka appealing. But is paradise really everything that...
Dates:
2018
Samara, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_gomez_alexandra.pdf
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"This project is an excerpt of 'Samara,' a romantic Fantasy Adventure with the soul and sensibilities of the Victorian era. In a city ruled by strict class hierarchy and a militant Lord Protector, magic is outlawed as a dangerous an unpredictible curse. Here a young seamstress makes an unsavory deal to save her younger brother, discovering she has illicit magic of her own. After a literal tumble down a magic well with a lawyer-turned-criminal, they must find their way home in an unfamiliar...
Dates:
2020
Sandshadow, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_rossi_tess.pdf
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"Inside Sun Haven, Seraphina is a woman determined to protect those she loves, especially eight-year-old Thea, even if that means relinquishing her freedom to Derix. Derix's final mission for her is a secretive delivery, along with eliminating those he deemed adversaries of Sun Haven. But when Seraphina finds herself shot and fighting to survive, she must decide whether to risk abandoning her mission while navigating who to trust within enemy territory. Sergeant Praxen Amiri harbors a...
Dates:
2023
Sharing Moonlight, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_sterling_katsumi.pdf
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"Sharing Moonlight is the first installment of a multi-POV New Adult Fantasy series about Miro, a young survivor of the kaimeira massacre ninety years ago, and the challenges he faces after he is forced to seek the truth and his lost twin in human form. When the eadile clan's disappearance sparks mass panic, Miro's choices are limited. One of them is Aiden, an eadile enforcer who helped him before. Once found, Miro learns that Aiden is embroiled in a civil war that has drawn the ire of the...
Dates:
2023
Shattered Sun, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_vacanti_antonio.pdf
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"The nation of Anari has been entrenched in civil war for over two centuries as warring successor kingdoms vie for supremacy. Casil, born as a slave to the nobility, is bought by the enigmatic Captain Avreka of the mercenary company the Shattered Suns. the Suns become a second family to Casil. In the present, Casil now commands the Suns after the death of Avreka. He is haunted by his past and the newfound responsibility of his inheritance. The Suns have been employed by a Kingdom on the...
Dates:
2023
Signs and Wonders, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023summer_hieber_leah.pdf
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"Yaeli, a young female rabbi, accepts her first rabbinical position in Siuslaw Oregon, the site of her greatest secret regret. She fears encountering her former best friend, Molly, whom Yaeli abandoned the morning after their secret wedding. Yaeli fears that Molly might still be living in Siuslaw and that an encounter might force them to confront this painful memory. While serving as the Siuslaw rabbi, Yaeli receives a surprise visit from her estranged twin brother, Danny, who she believes...
Dates:
2023
Song of Water and Air: An Amphiverse Novel, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_zacchia_jillian.pdf
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"Song of Water and Air is a YA sci-fi fantasy of approximately 100,000 words. When a tsunami hits Lake Superior, Pan and her boyfriend nearly drown...until Pan realizes she can breathe underwater. Compelled to understand what that means, Pan returns to the lake and finds an underwater portal. Once through, she's stunned by the new world she discovers and guilt ridden by everything she left behind in her search for answers. On this new planet, called Asophos, Pan meets beings called Amphis...
Dates:
2022
Stargazer A Novel, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_santiago_anthony.pdf
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"The first half of Stargazer, a science-fantasy adventure novel, takes place in the distant future of an alternate Earth. Protagonist Kieran-lan is an extraterrestrial archaeologist whose people have been stranded on Earth for 10,000 years. When she lands herself a job as a consultant on a deep-space survey ship, she believes that she will have just the opportunity to answer the ages old questions about what happened to her people and why their history disappeared. Kieran-lan's desperate...
Dates:
2019
Swamp Pizza, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_reine_kelsey.pdf
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"Concrete's cooking in Opelousas, Louisiana and JOSELINE (16) desperately wants to forget about her troubles at home with a negligent mother and have the best Summer of her life with her two best-friends RODGER (15) and MIRACLE JOY (15). After what seems like a typical day at work cooking pizzas and selling beer to the trashy locals at the “great value” amusement park, the three friends get an alert that the park is on lockdown. Through the walkie talkie communication system they are alerted...
Dates:
2022
Taming Flesh, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_hamilton_michael.pdf
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"This thesis project is an excerpt from the novel in progress "Taming Flesh". With a blend of horror, paranormal, and fantasy genres, the goal of this novel is to provide an entertaining commentary on gender roles and toxic masculinity. In an alternate 1920s America, beef has been banned and is considered holy. It's also believed to be the source of monstrous transfigurations only experienced by men. Despite abstinence from beef, Hedon has developed a set of horns and his skin has turned...
Dates:
2020
The Burning Sands, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_firestine_marisa.pdf
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"The Burning Sands' features two distinct races locked in a simmering, centuries-long conflict. Spara is a half-wind, the offspring of those two races: the human-like dathrals and the subha, a race of wind-wielding, genderless people. Raised among the subha but too dathral bodied to truly belong, Spara lives isolated and alienated. Shi dedicates xyr life to serving Kingship, the ruler of xyr land, in hopes of earning a place within subha society. Yet obedience to Kingship leads to harm for...
Dates:
2020
The Cartographer's Apprentice, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_smith_alanna.pdf
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"On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...
Dates:
2021
The DragonFyre Chronicles: Striking Flame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_rivera_benjamin.pdf
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"Striking Flame is a debut fantasy novel, focusing on the conflict between two dragon brothers. The work is an examination of race relations through a dragon's perspective in an alternate version of our world. Barrios, the main protagonist, believes that peace between dragons and humans is possible, where his older brother Brontaren views them with distrust and growing hostility. Barrios seeks to bring Brontaren to his view, though problems old and new may thwart his success. In addition to...
Dates:
2022
The Emrys School of Art, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_wong_jennifer.pdf
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"As a senior at Morgan University, Grace Huang often feels more comfortable with the paintings than with her classmates. When she sneaks into a party thrown by the distinguished Emrys School of Art, she finds a grisly tableau: a portrait that screams while its subject is bleeding to death. When Grace is invited to join the Emrys School of Art, she can’t refuse. She finds a place to belong with fellow students and artists. As Grace digs into the Emrys School, she uncovers the secrets of magic...
Dates:
2023
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
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"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023
The Fountain of Youth (A Novel), 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zolfonoon_wesline.pdf
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"The year is 2078 and Mozaik Hayes has just begun his position at REbirth, a company devoted to individual beauty as well as the growth of family through the use of birthing pods. Mozaik is the first of second-tier citizen to ever work at such a prestigious company, and he is the first to ever uncover something so terribly earth-shattering with in it. Mozaik must now decide if he should reveal his discovery to the people he trusts the most or keep what he has seen to himself and pretend...
Dates:
2019
The Fox Merchant, 2020
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Identifier: cw_2020spring_benz_allison.pdf
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"This fantasy novel centers around Sionnach, a cursed fox god of trade, and Maia, a deaf mage snatched from her homeland as a child. After ten years of servitude, Maia secretly learns magic and escapes onboard Sionnach's wagon. He soon discovers that her deafness makes her immune to his manipulative powers. The two set off on their journey, suspicious of one another and unable to communicate. But when Sionnach saves Maia's life, their relationship changes. Maia demands that Sionnach take her...
Dates:
2020