The magicians land11/29/2023 ![]() ![]() When I came across a character in The Magicians referring to an artifact called “a Hand of Oberon,” I smiled despite never having read the like-titled Roger Zelazny novel. Furthermore, a lifetime of delving the history of sf has left me with a head full of its creators’ names and the obscure sometime-poetry of their titles. The Lord of the Rings made teenage me want to write fiction, but Tolkien’s lackluster imitators made me a reader of sf, horror, crime and literary fiction-damn near any genre but high fantasy. I knew that I’d found the fantasy novels for adult me. He looked at me and said, “You know another Pangborn?” ![]() When Lev Grossman, author of a trilogy involving a magical parallel world called Fillory, crossed paths with me a few years ago, I asked whether he had truly named a monster in The Magicians after science fiction novelist Edgar Pangborn.
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