Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction & Fantasy Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through the best worlds of Science Fiction & Fantasy Your ultimate travel guide to all the must-see locations in the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The perfect gift for self-professed geeks and fans of all things genre – from classic genre readers to new young disciples of nerdery. From misty mountains to wizarding schools, from the homes of superheroes to lairs of infamous villains – visit your favourite worlds and discover new ones – all without ever missing a single landmark or traditional dish. What’s orc for ‘bon voyage’? ‘Nate is the wielder of a unique and delightful imagination’– Adrian Tchaikovsky ‘This is a kind of Lonely Planet guide to the various sub-genres of SF and Fantasy, written as though the work of a crass, blundering hack journalist. It's splendidly satirical and hilariously funny, provided you don't mind literary sacred cows being slaughtered with gleeful, merciless abandon.’Financial Times ‘A love letter to the worldbuilding of fantasy fiction’Grimdark Magazine Praise for Nate Crowley 'Weird and hilarious' – Buzzfeed 'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' – Daily Dot Ft Book of the Year 2020: The Essential Guide to the Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy! The ONLY Travel Guide You’ll Need This Year. Nate Crowley is the author of a slowly increasing pile of books,and is an editor for PC gaming website Rock Paper Shotgun. Helives in Walsall with his partner Ashleigh, his daughter, and abunch of crabs and lizards and stuff, plus a cat he insists on callingTurkey Boy. He likes cooking stews, having baths, thinking aboutthe sea, and getting way too into strategy games. @frogcroakleywww.nate-crowley.com Ft Book of the Year 2020: The Essential Guide to the Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy! The ONLY Travel Guide You’ll Need This Year. With his hilarious, insightful (and often poignant) observations on all things geekery, Nate Crowley has amassed a dedicated following of over 11k on Twitter A writer for War Hammer’s Black Library and a master of video game platform, Twitch, Nate has the nerd-credentials to take you on a journey into the worlds of Fantasy and Science Fiction like no other Targeting the gift market for everyone’s favourite fanboy and fan girl in your life, this pocket guide is the perfect present A HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY for the modern fan Competition: The Witcher;Fellowship of the Rings; Thrawn Ascendancy; He-Man;Philosopher’s Stone; Feast for Crows; Ballad of songbirds and snakes;Trek; Pirates of the Caribbean; Soddit;Dune;Spiderman;Sherlock Holmes;Magician. JRR Tolkein; JK Rowling; George RR Martin; George Lucas;
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