I guess that depends on how you define "fantastical." The first definition I got from a Google search is: "1. a. Based on or existing only in...
Yep! Great books :)
How can it be alternate history if the setting is completely divorced from the real world? There's no history for it to be alternate to.
Yes, of course. There are plenty of fantasy books with no magic.
Man één: “Nothing is going to make us look more foolish than these damned wooden shoes.” Man twee: “Hold my corenwijn.” (in reference to the...
Would have been nice to keep the game going--some day if my work schedule ramps down a bit, which I'm hoping for in the next year or two. This...
Welcome, Rori. Nice to have you here!
I'm a book behind--about 1/8 of the way into the last one I suppose. I like it.
That doesn’t make sense at all, in my view. We will have to agree to disagree. I’ll stick with where the market places such works, which also...
Gormenghast is not horror. Lions of Al-Rassan is not historical fantasy--it's set in a made up world, along with many of his other books, that...
It's hard to argue that books set in an entirely made-up world, which fall squarely into secondary world fantasy (like KJ Parker's books) suddenly...
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast books. Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of Al-Rassan KJ Parker, The Company (and some other KJ Parker books, for that matter)...
That may be your view, but it is not one I share (nor one shared by the marketplace, apparently, since these works are shelved and sold in the...
Except for all of the fantasy works that have no magic in them at all...
Let’s all remember to keep the discussion on the civil footing that has prevailed thus far. Insulting language isn’t necessary and does not serve...
But, doesn't this imply ownership? When it comes to a lot of what I think about in terms of culture and art, it doesn't make much sense to me to...
It is important to be respectful and not denigrate another group or culture. The idea that uses of other cultural elements is off-limits does not...
The salient point, which she expresses concisely at the end, seems to be that when one is writing from the perspective of “other,” one has to be...
What is the evidence in support of this? I have never assumed that, and I'm not sure the majority of readers do.
Doesn’t bother me in the least, personally.
