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| Date | 2015-02-21 08:17:41 | 2015-02-21 10:47:33 | |||
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| t | 1 | Good post, Brian.In general, these sorts of dbeate | t | 1 | This forum needed <a href="http://tbsqpalel.com">s |
| > | s frustrate me, because I find myself somewhat in | > | hankig</a> up and you've just done that. Great pos | ||
| > | the middle and never able to fully agree with both | > | t! | ||
| > | sides.I like older styles of fantasy, and don't s | ||||
| > | ee that they need to be reconstructed or deconstru | ||||
| > | cted. I'm not much concerned with the "moral defic | ||||
| > | iencies" modern readers might find in Howard or wh | ||||
| > | oever.On the other hand, it strikes me as silly th | ||||
| > | at the desire to inject modern thought or differen | ||||
| > | t viewpoints in fantasy is viewed as horrible, or | ||||
| > | as a covert part of some "culture war." And the h | ||||
| > | yperbole of the rhetoric is sometimes risible: one | ||||
| > | may not like Gaiman's Beowolf (and I find it pede | ||||
| > | strinian and a missed oppurtunity) but it isn't a | ||||
| > | left-leaning assault on the very nature of heroism | ||||
| > | by any means. The idea that heroes may be follow | ||||
| > | ed isn't a new thing (it's as old as the Greeks, a | ||||
| > | t least) and to trip use of a hoary literary trope | ||||
| > | as revolution borders on paranoia.Likewise, the p | ||||
| > | retend that new novels are wallowing in the muck b | ||||
| > | y having anti-heroes, or less than morally unimpea | ||||
| > | chable and the like is also an overreach, I think. | ||||
| > | No matter how much you I've seen people jump thr | ||||
| > | ough hoops to attempt to wring this reading from H | ||||
| > | oward, Conan is not a white knight--nor is Lancelo | ||||
| > | t really, for that matter.I guess I just wish peop | ||||
| > | le could not like stuff without having have to be | ||||
| > | morally bad.Oh, and I agree on Steel Remains. Whi | ||||
| > | le its got some interesting ideas, it doesn't have | ||||
| > | a fantasy feel really, it comes across more as sc | ||||
| > | ience fiction, ad honestly somewhat mundane scienc | ||||
| > | e fiction. | ||||
