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Tom Shippey Quotes

born 1943 United Kingdom

Tom Shippey (9 September 1943 –) is a British scholar and retired professor of Middle and Old English literature, as well as medievalism and modern fantasy and science fiction.

United Kingdom
Academics
Linguists
Science fiction authors

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Fantasy literature, in its broadest definition from "Cinderella" to "Beowulf" to Stephen Donaldson, is literature which makes deliberate use of something known to be impossible.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom Shippey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.