![]() ![]() Some of their doors may open again, while others will never be found a second time. These wayward children came back from their magical worlds, and now are having trouble fitting in to the real world. The series begins with Every Heart a Doorway, an award-winning novella that imagines a school for all the curious children who found doors to their own, bespoke worlds. Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series offers a fresh, nuanced take on portal fantasy. Children who began their reading lives with Narnia or Alice in Wonderland often spent some part of their childhoods afterward opening odd cupboards and doors, hoping to find magical worlds on the other side. ![]() For many readers, these stories are the entrance to the idea of fantasy itself. The form is familiar, yet rich with possibility: a door to another world appears, a choice is made, a character comes back changed … if she comes back at all. Portal fantasy has it’s own special corner of the genre landscape. ![]()
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