John Crowley writes literary fantasy and speculative fiction in which history, myth and private lives overlap. Little, Big follows several generations of the Drinkwater family and their connection to an elusive world of Faerie, using a large family house, marriages and inherited stories rather than a conventional quest structure. His four-volume Ægypt sequence begins with The Solitudes and follows historian Pierce Moffett into questions about Renaissance magic, alternative histories and whether the world itself changes according to how it is understood. Crowley's prose is dense, reflective and slow-moving, with ideas and patterns accumulating across long narratives. His work fits literary fantasy, historical fantasy and metafiction, particularly for readers of Gene Wolfe, M. John Harrison or Susanna Clarke who enjoy speculative fiction built as much from thought and atmosphere as plot. Read more Less
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