The inside back cover of the revised edition is a 2006 postscript by Jones, "How I Came to Write This Guidebook". It is set in a fantasy world that maintains the cliches detailed in the Tough Guide for the benefit of commercial tourism from our world. (The) Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998) is one that subverts, and a conceptual sequel. Jones has written many fantasy novels, mainly for children or young adults, including some that simply rely upon and some that subvert common fantasy motifs. A revised and updated edition was completed in 2006 and published by Penguin ( Firebird Books), first in the U.S. It was first published by Vista Books (London) in 1996. However, it may be called a fictional or parodic tourist guidebook. Library of Congress calls it a dictionary. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is a nonfiction book by the British author Diana Wynne Jones that humorously examines the common tropes of a broad swathe of fantasy fiction.
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