Cover of the Future Fiction magazine, November 1939. Source: Wikimedia Commons. (Public domain).
Having been the base of a human pyramid in an All Star circus and the maestro of a Moko Jumbie carnival band for a few hot summers, I’m a signed, sealed and delivered lover of the magical, the fabulous and the spectacular. So I watch the development of fantastical Young Adult (YA) fiction—shot through with runes, witches, latin puzzles and classical wizardry—with with genuine wonder. I have one large caveat: the omission of marginal voices from all this Young Adult fiction imagineering.
