![]() ![]() Here the tradition of heroic fantasy is pure. Lewis, and Lord Dunsany–at least, that is how the Ballantine series markets itself. Her work is a product of the generation more or less directly succeeding the likes of J.R.R. Joy Chant, although otherwise obscure, is an author of classic heroic fantasy. Those who pick up Joy Chant are in for something deeper. The Ballantine series was where the motifs and cliches of the genre supposedly had their birth, but my experience was not of reading yet another derivative fantasy novel. ![]() Rediscovering the Ballantine fantasy books proved to be a nostalgic romp through territory supposedly familiar to all of us who read and love fantasy novels. Last January, Dorothy Bray, a professor at McGill University where I study, handed me an old Ballantine Adult Fantasy classic: Red Moon and Black Mountain (1970) by the well-named Joy Chant. ![]()
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