The A to Z of Fantasy Literature by Brian Stableford

Author:Brian Stableford
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

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JACQ, CHRISTIAN (1947– ). French Egyptologist, author of a long series of historical fantasies whose first sequence comprises The Son of Light (tr. 1997), The Temple of a Million Years (tr. 1997, aka The Eternal Temple), The Battle of Kadesh (tr. 1998), The Lady of Abu Simbel (1996; tr. 1998), and Under the Western Acacia (1996; tr. 1999). The Black Pharaoh (1999; tr. 1999), set 500 years later, serves as a bridge to a second sequence, comprising Nefer the Silent (2000), The Wise Woman (2000), Paneb the Ardent (2000; tr. 2001), and The Place of Truth (2001). A further sequence comprises The Empire of Darkness (2001; tr. 2002), The War of the Crowns (2002; tr. 2003), and The Flaming Sword (2002; tr. 2003).

JACQUES, BRIAN (1939– ). British writer. Most of his work belongs to a successful sequence of animal fantasies featuring the mice of Redwall Abbey, comprising Redwall (1986), Mossflower (1988), Mattimeo (1989), Mariel of Redwall (1991), Salamandastron (1992), Martin the Warrior (1993), The Bellmaker (1995), Outcast of Redwall (1995), The Pearls of Lutra (1996), The Long Patrol (1997), Marlfox (1998), The Legend of Luke (1999), Lord Brocktree (2000), Taggerung (2001), Triss (2002), Loamhedge (2003), and a variety of merchandising spinoffs. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (2001) and The Angel’s Command (2003) follow the adventures of a boy and a dog washed away from the deck of the accursed ship. His short fiction is sampled in Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales (1991) and The Ribbajack and Other Curious Yarns (2004).

JAKES, JOHN W. (1932– ). U.S. writer best known for historical fiction and sf (refer to HDSFL). Most of his fantasy is sword and sorcery imitative of Robert E. Howard, including a series collected as Brak the Barbarian (1968), Brak the Barbarian versus The Sorceress (1969), Brak the Barbarian versus The Mark of the Demons (1969), Brak: When the Idols Walked (1978), and The Fortunes of Brak (1980). The Last Magicians (1969) is in a similar vein. Mention My Name in Atlantis (1972) is a parody of the subgenre’s clichés. The historical romance Veils of Salome (1962, initially bylined “Jay Scotland”) recycles a classic item of erotic fantasy.

JANSSON, TOVE (1914–2001). Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator. Her fantasy series, launched in 1945, deals witha highly distinctive secondary world constructed by the unhuman inhabitants of the Moomin Valley construct, which she developed in comic strips and stage plays as well as books. Although they are in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, whose translations Jansson illustrated, along with Tolkien’s The Hobbit, their particular blend of humor, sentimentality, and lyricism—with darker intrusions—is distinctive. The English translations are Finn Family Moonmintroll (1950; aka The Happy Moomins), Comet in Moominland (1951), The Exploits of Moominpapa (1952), Moominland Midwinter (1958), Moominsummer Madness (1961), Tales from Moomin Valley (1963), Moominpapa at Sea (1966), and Moominvalley in November (1971). The characters were subsequently licensed for use by other writers.

JARRY, ALFRED (1873–1907). French writer, an important pioneer of surrealism. The work he did in association with his invention of

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