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|summary=Stylish but accessible, captivating and emotionally realistic story of magic in a (slightly) alternative world with a mildly Dickensian flavour but modern sensibilities. Better written than Harry Potter, but should appeal to most Potter fans and comes recommended for children and adults aged 7+. | |summary=Stylish but accessible, captivating and emotionally realistic story of magic in a (slightly) alternative world with a mildly Dickensian flavour but modern sensibilities. Better written than Harry Potter, but should appeal to most Potter fans and comes recommended for children and adults aged 7+. | ||
Revision as of 13:43, 1 January 2013
World literature started with tales that would be now claimed by the fantasy genre. For a long time, fantastic tales were very much the mainstream of fiction, and only with the growth of the classic realistic novel, the fantastic, later on split into the fantasy and sci-fi, became "genre fiction". There is an incredible temptation - and appeal - in setting your story in a world that isn't - or doesn't have to - be constrained by laws of science and requirements of realism. And how much more appealing is it to believe that those other worlds are real - can be reached with a hand that extends just far enough, really here, behind the wall, inside a mirror, between the pages of a book?
Magda has compiled her top ten novels which feature a portal between worlds. In most of them, a character from our reality enters an alternative (and often, but not always, a magical) world, but in some, the journey is the other way, or both worlds are different from ours. Why not tell us about your favourites?
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