Kathi Maio

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epic fantasy n. 1997 K. Maio Films in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 93/1 And although he experimented in poetry, as well as a variety of pulp formulas and series characters, Howard will always be remembered as the father of Conan, and, thereby, one of the founders of the sub-genre that would be called, variously, epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, and sword and sorcery.
fantastical n. 1995 K. Maio Films: A Flop About a Failure in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 75/2 The Violent Years is absurd, but not boring. And the same is true of the films Mr. Wood is most famous for, all of which might be considered science fiction/fantasy/horror. The fact is that Wood couldn’t help himself from straying into the fantastical, whether it was appropriate to his story or not.
grandfather paradox n. 2000 K. Maio Films: The Quantum Physics of Lost Chances in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept. 83/1 Frequency [a film] is the flipside of that classic philosophy of physics conundrum, ‘the grandfather paradox’. Instead of speculating what it would mean to go back in time and kill your own grandfather, the film posits what it would mean to go back and save your own father from certain death.
heroic fantasy n. 1997 K. Maio Films in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 93/1 And although he experimented in poetry, as well as a variety of pulp formulas and series characters, Howard will always be remembered as the father of Conan, and, thereby, one of the founders of the sub-genre that would be called, variously, epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, and sword and sorcery.
replicant n. 1 2004 K. Maio Films in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 116/1 The hero of the movie, a defense research scientist named Spencer Olham…is accused of not being who he believes himself to be by a ruthless security agent, Major Hathaway…. Hathaway claims that Olham is actually a replicant smart bomb.
sword and sorcery n. 1997 K. Maio Films in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 93/1 And although he experimented in poetry, as well as a variety of pulp formulas and series characters, Howard will always be remembered as the father of Conan, and, thereby, one of the founders of the sub-genre that would be called, variously, epic fantasy, heroic fantasy, and sword and sorcery.