Reviews
Young writers, take heed!
A Reader’s Manifesto, by B.R. Myers
A glimpse of God, but a full-dress study of Man
The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Abyss and the Critics
The Children of Húrin, by J.R.R. Tolkien
1977: The Big Bang of fantasy
A critical review in five parts1. From Zeus’s brow
How the books of 1977 transformed fantasy
2. Lord of the Rinky-dink
The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
3. Hero and fool
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
4. All roads to nowhere
Circle of Light, by Niel Hancock
5. Lost tales, unattained vistas
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien