Thanks for the link! Hey, he even mentions Dickens and Marx the same way I do. And the end results of the Nationalist fervor emerging. Brain twins! Only he sees less hope for the genre. Seeing fantasy choked for so long on equally revisionist medieval fantasy with even more adulation of the monarchy as a governmental form means that A) I think it's a perfectly viable subgenre, B) aren't all subgenres a little follow the leader, and C)Damn, see my note about the stories I would like to see told and D) My whole genre is a mess, but God, I love it.
Wonderful quote. I've been a history buff my whole life, and I used to astonish my teachers in middle school, when I said, honestly out of all the periods of history, I really would rather live right now. A lot of people don't realize there's anything beneath the pretty dresses and shiny buildings.
I should probably mention that I have issues with medieval fantasy too.
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:11 pm (UTC)Wonderful quote. I've been a history buff my whole life, and I used to astonish my teachers in middle school, when I said, honestly out of all the periods of history, I really would rather live right now. A lot of people don't realize there's anything beneath the pretty dresses and shiny buildings.
I should probably mention that I have issues with medieval fantasy too.