D&D Fantasy Fiction by TSR Publications
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Prepping for ENGL 378: Fantasy Fiction has been a rollercoaster ride for two solid months -- I'm doing all my lesson plans ahead of time, but since I'm taking a literary history approach to genre fantasy, I've needed to fill in several gaps in my own knowledge. Partly, that's necessitated an insanely deep dive into sword-and-sorcery (more on which soon). Another part, though, has been a dive into Dungeons & Dragons fantasy fiction. For fantasy readers of a certain age, the D&D novels produced by TSR publications define the essence of "genre fantasy." Even for someone like myself who never really got into the whole D&D thing, avoiding these books simply wasn't possible. Back during the 1980s and 1990s, I still remember walking into Waldenbooks and seeing half the fantasy section -- already much larger than the SF section -- filled with nothing but Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance novels. Trying to learn more background, I discovered a wonderful