This post begins: The triple-decker Fantasy novels of the 20th Century, most cast in the semblance of J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterworks, bear little fruit for me. When I read Fantasy I want to experience worlds that are so different from our own. Ursula K. Le Guin summed this up nicely in her essay “From Elfland to Poughkeepsie”(Pendragon Press, 1973). Fantasy must be more than just a modern scenario in funny costumes. Le Guin sites Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni saga as an example. I don’t know if I agree with Le Guin on that as I have never read these books despite Lin Carter promoting them in the Ballantine Fantasy series.
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