Skip to content
Everything About The Wheel Of Time
This Month's New Titles
The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.

Dire Contingencies: Exploring the Consequences of Magic in Modern Fantasy

Home / Author / Kristen Patterson

Kristen Patterson

Kristen holds a master's degree in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, but she also holds strong opinions on subjects in which she is not formally accredited. She reads. She is always trying to read more, MORE!

Latest from Kristen Patterson

Showing 8 results

Still from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, depicting Merry and Treebeard during the Ent's march to Isengard
Featured Essays
Fantasy

Dire Contingencies: Exploring the Consequences of Magic in Modern Fantasy

By
Comment number: 9
Photo of a horse in a sunny pasture
Books
horses

How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

By
Comment number: 13
Adam Driver stands on the ledge of an art deco building in a scene from Megalopolis
Featured Essays
architecture

The Future Is a City: Megalopolis and Why Architecture Matters to Sci-Fi

By
Comment number: 2
Left: Yoda using the Force in a scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back; Right: Spock holding a punch card in a scene from Star Trek: The Original Series
Featured Essays

Let’s Start a Fight: Are Science Fiction and Fantasy the Same?

By
Comment number: 87
Featured Essays
Metropolis

Black Futuras: How Three Pop Divas Adapted the Image of Metropolis’ Maschinenmensch 

By
Comment number: 4
Featured Essays
Epic Fantasy

Wilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword

By
Comment number: 0
margot robbie in barbie
Featured Essays
Barbie

I Said I’d Make a Woman: Barbie and the Pygmalion Paradigm

By
Comment number: 4
Books
The Locked Tomb

Are We the Baddies? Magic and Normativity in The Locked Tomb Series

By
Comment number: 13

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

TPG 2025 • Site Credit