Our stories must always reflect our real lives. Elves with magic bows and children born under prophecies to save the world just don’t fit with the new realities of war and politics. Instead we get constant, grueling warfare (Joe Abercrombie does a great job with this). We get the people in charge making secret deals and engaging in vicious reprisals (George R. R. Martin is the undisputed master here). We get sudden acts of terrifying carnage, and we get the desperate hopes of the people huddling in their mud hovels, hoping this time, just maybe, the war of good versus evil won’t be played out on their fields and in their homes this time. Low Fantasy is ascendant, because we’re living it.
– SF Signal: [GUEST POST] David Chandler on A Game Of Subgenres ( Giveaway!)
Posted on Friday December 9th
