Tough Travelling: Apprentices

It's another new month, and so it's time for another new Tough Travelling. If you're new to my blog, around the first of each month we travel through fantasy tropes with The Fantasy Hive; listing our favourite examples of each trope as outlined by Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. This month, we're looking…

Tough Travelling: Mentors and Snarky Sidekicks

Hello everyone and welcome to Tough Travelling! Every month, we go on our travels through Fantasyland with Fantasy Faction, exploring a different fantasy trope as defined by Dianna Wynne Jones in her Tough Guide to Fantasyland. I managed to miss November's theme, Mentors, and I'm a bit late with this month's theme, Snarky Sidekicks; and so…

Tough Travelling: Strongholds

The lovely (and apparently sweary) Laura M Hughes from Fantasy Faction has captured my imagination with this month's Tough Travelling theme, Strongholds. Now, I have always had a love for strongholds (castles); as nurtured by my father and grandfather. Living in a country with over six hundred of them, that's more per square mile than any other…

Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy by Decade

The Middle Shelf are looking to blog about the ten best sci-fi and fantasy books by decade since the 1960's. You can read their thread on their twitter page. UPDATE The list has been chosen! Discover what made it through on The Middle Shelf They requested our suggestions (five books per decade), and asked us…