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  • The Generation Shaping Icelandic Fantasy

    The Generation Shaping Icelandic Fantasy

    It’s a brutal truth, but as a whole, most Icelandic writers have two relatively boring characteristics in common. First, they take themselves way too seriously. And second, they are still kind of chasing the glorious shadows of our only Nobel Prize winner…

  • Alexander Dan On The Untapped Resource of Icelandic Fantasy

    Alexander Dan On The Untapped Resource of Icelandic Fantasy

    In 2014, when Alexander Dan first started looking for a publisher for the sci-fi/fantasy novel that he’d worked on for the past four years, the response was somewhat disheartening. “I couldn’t figure out why the manuscript kept getting rejected,” he reminisces. “I…