5 天之前 · Dive into the enchanting world of portal fiction! Discover the sub-genre that transports readers from the real world to magical realms through captivating portal fantasies.

2016年9月9日 · These are books for grown ups that portray a person from the "real" world being transported to another world. I like this type of book and I really want to have a place where these types of books are collected.

2024年3月12日 · Other famous examples of portals in portal fiction: In Outlander, we see Claire touch a circle of ancient standing stones and be transported to 18th-century Scotland. In Coraline, we see her discover a small door in her family’s new apartment that …

2018年12月18日 · Travel vicariously through these portal fiction fantasy books. From time travel to epic fantasy like The Chronicles of Narnia, these gripping reads will take you on a journey.

2020年7月21日 · Portal fiction, which usually has a person from our world as the protagonist, can create a more immediate connection to the character’s experience because it is closer to the reader’s own. The zeitgeist (spirit) of the time and place they come from colors their perceptions of where they go.

Notable examples include L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), C. S. Lewis ' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), and Stephen R. Donaldson 's late-1970s series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

2019年7月17日 · Fall down the rabbit hole of these must-read portal fantasy books and discover new worlds with a host of eclectic characters.

2023年10月29日 · Portal fantasy is one of the oldest sub-genres of fantasy, with some legends about travels between realms in Viking mythology or journeys to the land of the fairies in Celtic myths being viewed as early portal fantasies. In a way a lot of Underworld myths could be considered portal fantasy.

2020年3月19日 · One of the keystones of fantasy literature is the portal novel. In portal stories, an ordinary person living in our version of Earth is magically (or sometimes scientifically) transported ...

Discover the genre of portal fantasy, including its definition and examples such as Coraline and The Magicians.