Fantasy Literature

Is science fiction an instrument of escapism or a mirror to our realities?

Psychology has diagnosed science fiction as a literature of evasion. But the genre has spoken back.

Gavin Miller, The Conversation
· Feb 25, 2020 · 05:30 pm
‘The Witcher’ books, coming to Netflix, tell their stories in ways seldom seen in fantasy fiction

The web series will widen the reach of what is already a cult series among lovers of fantasy sagas.

Kaustav Sood
· Oct 06, 2019 · 12:30 pm
80 years before Bram Stoker, it was a young English doctor who introduced us to the modern vampire

Until John Polidori’s novel, ‘The Vampyre’, the creatures had been imagined as shaggy, fetid and bestial.

Robert Morrison, The Conversation
· Apr 11, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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The Reel

Why speculative fiction may be the best way to depict reality

The form exposes society and our lives in places that realistic fiction can’t touch.

Shweta Taneja
· Nov 08, 2015 · 05:30 pm