Powerhouse fantasy writer Fonda Lee and ... which constructs a fantasy world full of martial arts and magic. And the result is: just fine. The book is partly based on the life and personal ...

“Special effects” were simply scratched onto the celluloid in early martial arts fantasy films, and monsters were just men dressed up in funny costumes. Things got a bit better around the ...

“Whereas in a martial arts novel, the whole point of the book is to fight. And it’s the fights that push the story along.” Besides the fighting, the book also had a lot of “internal kung ...