The Blood In My Veins Is Frozen

No One Needs A First Edition. Whoever Wrote It; Even If It Was Moses.

It Is, Of Course, The First Recourse Of Every Elitist To See Social Barbarism In Others.

George Orwells 1984 Frequently Tops Surveys Of Our Greatest Books: Its Not A Celebration Of Poetic Language. Its Decidedly Anti-literary, A Masterpiece Of Personal And Political Narrative Sequence. And Its Subject Matter Is Crucial, Because What 1984 Shows Is That Language Can Be A Dirty Trick.

Recasting Fairy Tales Has Become A Publishing Sub-genre In Itself, And Has Been Done Both Well And To The Point Of Entropy. More Interesting Are Those Works Where The Structures Of Fairytales Are Abandoned But The World Of 'fairy' Is Imported As A Delicate Spice.

Fantasy Gets A Mixed Reception - A Lot Of Fantasy Is Formulaic But Most Of The Award-winning Fantasy On The Contrary Tends To Be The Stuff At The Edges Of The Genre, Rather Than Swimming In The Middle.