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The Tough Guide To Fantasyland

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This authoritative A-Z constitutes an essential source of information for all who dare to venture into the imaginative hinterlands.

It provides acute insights into such mysteries as how HORSES reproduce, the varying types of VIRGIN and the importance of CLOAKS to those wondering about going on a quest with a fellowship (of the Ring or otherwise).

Features include: * A map. * Lively background on those you will meet, including: BARBARIAN HORDES, lots and lots of wild-seeming people advancing under a cloud of dust in order to devastate more civilised parts and ELVES, who claim they did not evolve like humans ...Certainly there seems to be no such thing as the Elvish ancestral ape. * Full details on the catering arrangements: BEER always foams and is invariably delivered in tankards.

What do you mean, 'it tastes awful'? The Management is not concerned with the taste of it.

That is your funeral. * Useful hints on coping in Fantasyland: ARMOUR is generally regarded as cheating.

TORTURE is obligatory at some stage.

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Gollancz
0575075929 / 9780575075924
Hardback
18/11/2004
United Kingdom
English
243 p. : ill.
16 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Vista, 1996.
Previous Gollancz parodies have been Sunday Times bestsellers and backlist superstars; more than 600,000 copies sold in total so far Diana Wynne Jones is one of Britain's premier fantasists; she won the Mythopoeic Award for The Dark Lord of Derkholm (beating J K Rowling); TOUGH GUIDE was nominated for a Hugo Award 'I'd vote for Diana Wynne Jones as a British Nation Treasure' LOCUS 'An indispensable guide for anyone stuck in the realms of fantasy without a magic sword to call their own' TERRY PRATCHETT
Previous Gollancz parodies have been Sunday Times bestsellers and backlist superstars; more than 600,000 copies sold in total so far Diana Wynne Jones is one of Britain's premier fantasists; she won the Mythopoeic Award for The Dark Lord of Derkholm (beating J K Rowling); TOUGH GUIDE was nominated for a Hugo Award 'I'd vote for Diana Wynne Jones as a British Nation Treasure' LOCUS 'An indispensable guide for anyone stuck in the realms of fantasy without a magic sword to call their own' TERRY PRATCHETT DSB Literary studies: general, GBC Reference works, JFCA Popular culture