![]() Ford, whose “The Dragon Waiting” won the World Fantasy Award two years after “Little, Big” (and will finally be reissued next year), or Wolfe, who twice won the World Fantasy Award and died this year at 87. ![]() ![]() But “Little, Big” is, as Le Guin wrote, “a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.” A genre whose practitioners include Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Le Guin, and Gene Wolfe requires no defense, but for too long, Crowley’s books were relegated, as he puts it with a sigh, “to the back of the bookstore, where the kinds of books are kept for readers who read no other kind.”Ĭrowley is perhaps less obscure than, say, John M. ![]() The novel “did not do very well in its initial fairy-less appearance as a general fiction title.” It did, however, win the World Fantasy Award, for it seems to belong, uneasily, to that amorphous genre, fantasy - the word summons elves, wizards, quests for magic rings, and, right, fairies. ![]()
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