George Martin (I refuse to use your middle initials like you were some kind of American Tolkien - raspberries to the Salon grunt who called you that!), meet your future epitaph: The mere trappings of the genre do nothing for me when wedded to the now-ubiquitous interminable soap-opera plots (a conservative friend of mine once accurately derided “fat fantasy” cycles such as Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time as “Lord of the Rings 90210”). Nor do they impress me in the least when placed into the hands of writers clearly bored with the classic mythic undertones of the genre, and who try to shake things up with what can best be described as postmodern blasphemies against our mythic heritage.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:30:48 +0000
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