NIN’s juggernaut rolls on through the Internet on this site, Symphony of Noise,which has MP3 of the forthcoming album and a link to the Survivalism video. Anyhow two things. Firstly , this strikes me a curiously apt take on Charles Stross’s comments about American writing about the near future and the pessimism thereof - just [...]
Okay this has little to do with sf and genre strictly but anybody who is interested in Mary Gentle’s writing really must visit this link to Rosicrucian war machines from 1626: Robert Fludd which I got from those sorted folk at Boing Boing. It is excellent that the basis for the counter-factual history Gentle has [...]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
Direct to the bad place, if we don’t fight back. Getting there via ever-decreasing circles. Continuing to pass Go en route, for a while, and so collecting dosh, but getting dizzier and dizzier, and…
Enough bad boardgame metaphor! But seriously, it’s just another [...]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
The expectation that fiction should be pacey and action-packed isn’t restricted to fantasy. But I’m not sure I agree with the implication of the question - I don’t think these aspects are necessarily a prerequisite to writing [...]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
I’m not necessarily sure the entire market expects constant action. A section of it does, certainly but it always has. Hopefully there will always be room for more reflective tales building towards more gradual revelation. At the moment I see both ends of the [...]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
I think the desire for pace and action has always been there among a good proportion of the genre readership. While there are notable exceptions, most authors of fantasy understand they cannot dither around, even if writing massive epics. But there is, and will [...]
March 17th sees the Write Fantastic crowd coming down to Forbidden Planet Bristol for a signing which includes Stephen Hunt and Diana Wynne Jones.
I had some questions on my mind so I posed them to the Write Fantastic mob, fully
intending to collate them as one post. Sigh best laid plans and all that.
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