What else I'm reading: a Primer.
Feb. 20th, 2011 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matt_doyleNo, sadly, this isn't the other book reviews I owe. Some days, you just have to post a link salad full of crunchy blue hypertext, because typing out all your own thoughts would keep you here all day.
Joe Abercombie has some things to say in response to Leo Grin. I think his post indicates very well why I like him as an author. John C. Wright has his own response, which I can only stare at in bafflement, but he seems a good-humored gentleman, the sort I'm happy to disagree with and don't feel a perverse urge to actively argue with. Adam Whitehead says a lot of things I agree with, but his commenters make some pretty interesting and articulate counterpoints. Kate Elliott, who I did not even know had a livejournal (exciting!), talks about grittiness and about perceived differences in male- and female- written epic fantasy. N.K. Jemisin and Foz Meadows also have very interesting things to say about women and epic fantasy.
Incidentally, I was clued into this whole discussion by Sherwood Smith, who has posts with extensive and excellent comment-thread discussions about this here, here, and here.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
superversive made two posts on the subject as well, and while I read the comments with interest, I elected not to join in that branch of the discussion myself, for various and sundry reasons.
Finally, in the process of looking through the Internet for conversation starters on dark fantasy, I found that there's an upcoming sequel to American McGee's Alice, one of my favorite games of all time.
Now, I'm off to write some more dark fantasy myself. I can only aspire to the lofty heights of nihilism others have achieved, but hopefully my general decadence and moral bankruptcy will make up for it. I mean, The Hellion Prince is about politics, so you know it's nasty.
Joe Abercombie has some things to say in response to Leo Grin. I think his post indicates very well why I like him as an author. John C. Wright has his own response, which I can only stare at in bafflement, but he seems a good-humored gentleman, the sort I'm happy to disagree with and don't feel a perverse urge to actively argue with. Adam Whitehead says a lot of things I agree with, but his commenters make some pretty interesting and articulate counterpoints. Kate Elliott, who I did not even know had a livejournal (exciting!), talks about grittiness and about perceived differences in male- and female- written epic fantasy. N.K. Jemisin and Foz Meadows also have very interesting things to say about women and epic fantasy.
Incidentally, I was clued into this whole discussion by Sherwood Smith, who has posts with extensive and excellent comment-thread discussions about this here, here, and here.
superversive made two posts on the subject as well, and while I read the comments with interest, I elected not to join in that branch of the discussion myself, for various and sundry reasons.Finally, in the process of looking through the Internet for conversation starters on dark fantasy, I found that there's an upcoming sequel to American McGee's Alice, one of my favorite games of all time.
Now, I'm off to write some more dark fantasy myself. I can only aspire to the lofty heights of nihilism others have achieved, but hopefully my general decadence and moral bankruptcy will make up for it. I mean, The Hellion Prince is about politics, so you know it's nasty.
