I"m saddened to have learned that fantasy scholar Colin Manlove
passed away on June 1st, "peacefully" after a long illness (according to
The Scotsman, 5 June 2020).I knew him only via email, and we shared especially our common interest in David Lindsay, about whom Colin had written in appreciation. I have, I believe, almost all of his books, and it's difficult to select favorites, but they would include Modern Fantasy (1975), Christian Fantasy (1992), Scottish Fantasy Literature (1994), The Fantasy Literature of England (1999), The Order of Harry Potter (2010), and Scotland's Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald (2016). Also noteworthy is his Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature (1996).
Sorry to hear that. His Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature is a favourite of mine.
ReplyDeleteJust a hardly relevant reminiscence: I read Peake's Gormenghast books for the first time in 1974, took a college course on fantasy that year, etc.; and the next year Modern Fantasy was published. I was intrigued even by its typography (Garamond?).
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