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The long result for the Brakebills bunch could be summed up as otherworldly quests punctuated by communal dipsomania, crossed hearts and sexual perversity in the big city. Eventually, he heads there and back again. Over the course of The Magicians, Quentin learns that his favorite childhood books, fantasies set in the Narnia-like realm of Fillory, came to be inspired by actual events in a very real Fillory. That first Fillory book introduces Quentin Coldwater, his friends and a school that teaches magic-a place called Brakebills, as hidden from the wider world as the existence of magic itself in Grossman’s setting. When I came across a character in The Magicians referring to an artifact called “a Hand of Oberon,” I smiled despite never having read the like-titled Roger Zelazny novel.
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Furthermore, a lifetime of delving the history of sf has left me with a head full of its creators’ names and the obscure sometime-poetry of their titles. The Lord of the Rings made teenage me want to write fiction, but Tolkien’s lackluster imitators made me a reader of sf, horror, crime and literary fiction-damn near any genre but high fantasy. I knew that I’d found the fantasy novels for adult me. He looked at me and said, “You know another Pangborn?”
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When Lev Grossman, author of a trilogy involving a magical parallel world called Fillory, crossed paths with me a few years ago, I asked whether he had truly named a monster in The Magicians after science fiction novelist Edgar Pangborn.