I first heard about this book during a podcast interview with Bryan Fuller, the awesome showrunner behind Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and Dead Like Me (three of my favorite shows). He cited it as an inspiration for the premise of Dead Like Me. This did a pretty good job of selling it, even though I initially thought the idea was a bit derivative of Terry Pratchett’s Mort (although it was actually published 4 years before Mort) and thought it would be entertaining “Discworld Lite.” On a Pale […]
Takin’ a Trip to Goofyland
Question Quest by Piers Anthony (1991) Xanth is a very magical realm and a complete series of fantasy books by cheeky Mr. Anthony. In this ongoing story of Xanth, it begins with a simple girl on a simple quest. She, like everyone else on Xanth, has a magical ability but that’s not the reason she’s come to ask an ancient wizard a Question. She thinks she is an old maid at thirty and perhaps the proposal she turned down when she was younger could be […]