![]() ![]() Granted it wouldn’t be as bad if most Fantasy writers would design their settings from scratch based on local folk tales. ![]() The genre is pretty much based on cribbing from Tolkien and/or Howard, and telling redundant stories in pseudo-medieval settings colored by pseudo-Germanic folklore. Conversely, there is no such thing as “Hard Fantasy”. ![]() Writers aspiring to do “serious business” Hard SF must always move their goal posts and look to the future. If they do, they typically get lumped into the Space Opera category and scoffed at. No one these days can get away writing the same way Asimov, Lem or Clarke did in the past. SF genre tends to force writers to invent new interesting settings all the time as the progress makes old predictions obsolete. On the other hand, I don’t read many fantasy books because the genre is a little bit stagnant. On one hand, I absolutely love the classic Tolkienesque “dwarves, elves and goblins” style settings in my movies, video games and pen and paper RPG’s. I have a very strange relationship with the Fantasy genre. ![]()
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