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[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1730770]

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[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

Erk...just read that. If she thinks that Zelazny and Leiber are bad, I wonder if she's read any of the last two decades worth of popular Fantasy?

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

She's writing as if the only acceptable form of fantasy is High Fantasy, and we can't -- and shouldn't -- all be Eddison. I would add that many of the great premodern epics have heroic figures, some the actual heroes, who are whiny as hell. Oliver plays the "I TOLD you so" card on Roland repeatedly, which I call damned restrained in the circumstance, the opinion being better conveyed with a Very Large Rock.