[Featured Author] John Grant
The Low Down on High Fantasy By Alexander James When it comes to fantasy and science fiction, Paul Barnett has both feet planted firmly on the ground. And as a lifelong champion of literary quality under the pen name, John Grant , his stance against humdrum and gender-driven books has earned him a place at the top, with over 60 best sellers under his belt, both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter are two standard authorities in their fields: Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters and, with John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy , for which he received the Hugo , Locus , Eaton , Mythopoeic Society and World Fantasy awards. He has also received a rare British Science Fiction Association Special Award and been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award and Bram Stoker Award . Two-time Hugo winner for his trailblazing science fiction/fantasy work, his novels include Albion and The World . For younger readers he has written the 12 novels in the Legends of Lon