In today’s post I found my copy of Farah and Edward’s latest book, A Short History of Fantasy. Short the book may be, but the history itself is not short. The list of significant works in the appendices begins with Gilgamesh, as it should. I’m looking forward to reading this one.

And on the subject of academic books, congratulations to my friend Charlie Butler who won this year’s Mythopoeic Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies with his book, Four British Fantasists. I’m glad I bought that one while I was at the DWJ conference.