Fantastic Journey: The Soul of Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Adventure
Paperback
Literary CriticismGeneral Parenting
ISBN13: 9781943034130
Publisher: Dynamos Press
Published: Nov 11 2020
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do you hesitate to read fantasy? Maybe you've been reading the wrong books. Review - Phyllis Wheeler
Unveil the elusive thrill of imaginative fiction. The Soul of Speculative Fiction and Fantasy Adventure is a non-fiction journey into transforming story. Discover fantastic worlds near and far. The ocean of fantasy broadens our horizons and enthralls our hearts with enchanting beauties on a voyage through a perilous realm. Epic fantasy and Christian speculative adventure benefit us on three levels: the wide world of ideas, the spiritual arena, and the sphere we breathe in. Good imaginative fiction conveys life to our souls. It breathes into being lands nearer than we know, shows us the adventure of love in all its facets, and transfers truth from thought and experience to our heart's grasp. Taste epic stories in various genres. Dive deep for the best gems. Explore how the hero's conflicts, a moral compass, deep character, and high adventure creates speculative fiction that calls us 'higher up, and further in.'* Vast lands of mystery and danger await every brave reader who seeks riches, yearning for jewels of strong and precious story. Discover treasures untold for yourself, your family, and friends. Find that which is the wealth of souls. Imaginative fantasy holds for us an often shapeless longing, real as the water we drink. -Fantastic Journey The ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction is vast beyond our imagining. Are you looking for young adult books that inspire as they entertain? Have you struggled to find family friendly fantasy, literary historical fiction, YA fantasy, and teen and young adult books that are great reads? Do you know where to hunt for the gems of epic fantasy adventure? Why does hope in fantasy, or Noblebright fantasy as we call it, inspire us? Imaginative fiction is one key to our future, for beauty, mystery, and adventure are vital to our spirits. The inspiring adventures we explore in this Fantasy Guide to Family Friendly Books ages 12 - 18 are beacons of extraordinary story. Most of them are lights by contrast, guiding us to enchanting lands of danger in the ocean of fantasy and speculative fiction. We bring up select jewels from the deep and explore mountain troves of fiction with seventy authors to whet your appetite for the riches heaped on untold shores. Each story is a fantastic journey that invites us to search beyond what we see for truth, to dig deeper for courage. And each story has a soul of its own. Fantastic Journey answers the question, how do the quest and the hero's journey affect us all? In these pages heroes and heroines show us how to identify true gems of wisdom and sell them not. How to discern enemies, friends, and endless possibilities with our inner eye, and to touch and taste the truths of life in realms near and far. Each story that draws the contrast of light battling darkness, that mirrors reality, that calls us to the adventure of truth, that reveals the joy of wonder, and the beauty of brave action - that story is a precious jewel won from the sea. Will you find that which is the wealth of souls? *'Higher up and further in' is a phrase quote from C.S. LewisAlso in
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