By: Will Ellwood (@fragmad)
An excellent post. One that presents a view on realism and sf that I am inclined towards. It would maybe be obvious to suggest that many of M John Harrison short stories such as "<a...
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Thanks, Will! I’ll have to check out Harrison’s short stories: I’m familiar with his longer works, but not so much his shorter stuff.
View ArticleBy: Will Ellwood (@fragmad)
Well I hope the observation applies to his novels post Climbers, if not earlier.
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[…] 6:00 PM F Readercon Blog Club: “The Uses and Value of Realism in Speculative Fiction”. Elizabeth Bear (leader), John Crowley, Rose Lemberg, Scott Lynch. In response to the Readercon 23 panel...
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[…] 12:00 PM G Friendship Is Magic. E.C. Ambrose, Rose Lemberg, Kathryn Morrow (leader), JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sabrina Vourvoulias. Heroes have friends and companions, while villains only have...
View ArticleBy: Wm Henry Morris (@WmHenryMorris)
I like the design refresh, Chris. What I struggle with is how to make the SFnal elements of a quotidian approach to SF&F (especially secondary world fantasy) matter to the story while keeping them...
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“As a consequence, we must imagine the fantastical environment in which a character’s daily life unfolds before we can imagine that daily life.” Yes. On the reception end of this difficulty, I would...
View ArticleBy: Chris Gerwel
I think that (if they’re done right: that’s always the tricky part) the primary use of quotidian elements in any story (whether fantasy or mimetic realism) is to enhance characterization. The act of...
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By: Chris Gerwel
Hmm…that’s a really interesting proposition! I’m not familiar with any sort of schema / theory that takes a stab at it, but it sounds like it’d be a fascinating tool for analyzing fantastical works....
View ArticleBy: Wm Henry Morris (@WmHenryMorris)
I like it. One of the common ways in fantasy to create a speculative environment that is removed from the reader’s reality and have them not central to the plot yet still foregrounded is to use the...
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