Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood

Paul Kincaid is the author of books on Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Brian Aldiss, as well as two collections of essays. He has twice won the BSFA Non-Fiction Award and has also received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Thomas Clareson Award.

“Paul Kincaid has produced a concise but valuable companion to Mythago Wood (1984), the prize-winning first volume of the Mythago Wood series, with an introduction, three thematic chapters, and very brief coda. ... Kincaid documents Mythago Wood’s impact and influence on fantasy-writing in the last decades of the twentieth century, noting that it won both the British Science Fiction Award and the World Fantasy award … .” (Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, SFRA Review, Vol. 54 (3), 2024)“ROBERT HOLDSTOCK’S MYTHAGO WOOD WAS HONORED with multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award both as a novelette and as a full-length novel. Paul Kincaid’s brief treatment of Holdstock’s work is compact in length but substantial in the depth of its analysis. Kincaid’s work is part of the Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon series and includes a comprehensive bibliography. … Kincaid’s assessment of Mythago Wood’s place in the fantasy canon is both assured and compelling.” (Glenn R. Gray, Mythlore, Vol. 42 (1), October, 2023)

• 1 Introduction: Into the Wood.- 2 War.- 3 Time.- 4 Myth.- 5 Aftermath.- Bibliography.- Index.