I thought of a couple almost examples while reading this, and one real one that I just read.
The real example I just finished (really, 10 minutes ago) is LightLand, by H. L. McCutchen. The cover and the SignificantWords are ... uninspiring ... but I actually ended up liking it, even if it's mostly fluff: Lottie Cook finds her way to a land made of memories through a cherry box given to her by her father.
One of the "almosts" is Sean Russell's The River Into Darkness, where Earth is strongly implied to be a parallel world. I found the ending depressing but portals play a fairly significant role in the story: it appears wizards came through the portals originally, and it's likely that all but the one remaining returned to Earth (or other worlds) through them by the time the story begins. There's also a blatant reference to Hiroshima. Although the wizards have a better grasp of science than the world at large, there are definite magical elements.
The other "almost" is Timothy Zahn's The Green and the Gray. The aliens (plant parasites and troll-like creatures) escaped from their own world to Earth, and have apparently been hiding among humans for a while. Not a great book in my opinion, but there is a twist.
Two others that I read a while back are the Archives of Anthropos by John White (a much more obviously Christian version of Narnia) and the Spectrum Chronicles by Thomas Locke, mostly light sci fi (but the mechanism for traveling to the other universe is never explained, and I would call that part of it fantasy).
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Date: 2009-05-25 11:38 pm (UTC)The real example I just finished (really, 10 minutes ago) is LightLand, by H. L. McCutchen. The cover and the SignificantWords are ... uninspiring ... but I actually ended up liking it, even if it's mostly fluff: Lottie Cook finds her way to a land made of memories through a cherry box given to her by her father.
One of the "almosts" is Sean Russell's The River Into Darkness, where Earth is strongly implied to be a parallel world. I found the ending depressing but portals play a fairly significant role in the story: it appears wizards came through the portals originally, and it's likely that all but the one remaining returned to Earth (or other worlds) through them by the time the story begins. There's also a blatant reference to Hiroshima. Although the wizards have a better grasp of science than the world at large, there are definite magical elements.
The other "almost" is Timothy Zahn's The Green and the Gray. The aliens (plant parasites and troll-like creatures) escaped from their own world to Earth, and have apparently been hiding among humans for a while. Not a great book in my opinion, but there is a twist.
Two others that I read a while back are the Archives of Anthropos by John White (a much more obviously Christian version of Narnia) and the Spectrum Chronicles by Thomas Locke, mostly light sci fi (but the mechanism for traveling to the other universe is never explained, and I would call that part of it fantasy).