Fantasy
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Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or magical elements, often including completely imaginary realms and creatures.
Illustration "The Whirlwind Seizes the Wreath" (from the story "The Fairy Aurora")
Painting Skeleton Fantasy Show (骷髏幻戲圖) by Li Song (1190–1264)
Illustration from the story "The Fairy of the Dawn" in The Violet Fairy Book (1906)
Another illustration from The Violet Fairy Book (1906)
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her
Fantasy
…of popularity in the late 1960s—that allowed fantasy to enter the mainstream. Several other series, such as C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea, helped to cement the genre's popularity. The popularity of the fantasy genre has continued to increase in the 21st century, as evidenced…
Le Guin in 1995
Ursula's father, Alfred Kroeber, with Ishi, the last of the Yahi people (1911)
Le Guin with Harlan Ellison at Westercon in Portland, Oregon (1984)
Le Guin at a reading in Danville, California (June 2008)