Comments on: George RR Martin Defends Genre

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Errant Epiphanies » Blog Archive » Genre Quibbles — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:15:23 +0000

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By: Sensawunda

Sensawunda — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:29:51 +0000

why shore!

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:25:57 +0000

I haven’t… have any to loan me?

By: Sensawunda

Sensawunda — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:22:45 +0000

Have you read any Kay before?

By: Superfast Reader

Superfast Reader — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:57:22 +0000

I just added 100 Years of Solitude + some Guy Gavriel Kay to my bookmooch wishlist.

By: Sensawunda

Sensawunda — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:39:13 +0000

Thanks, Imani! It isn’t super easy to define. But the good thing is, I just ordered 100 Years of Solitude… I remembered I had an Amazon certificate that expired today! Also got books 2 & 3 of a Roger MacBride Allen time-travel trilogy… read book 1 about 7 years ago and didn’t realize it was “To Be Continued” til I got to the end. I hate when that happens!!!!! (The Chronicles of Solace, book 1 is The Depths of Time) There was sensawunda in that book.

Sorry about my final remark. It appears to me that Kay wanted to set his novels in the cultures of medieval Europe and the Near East without being unduly bound by historic events. It’s actually what a lot of fantasy writers do, but they usually try to make their worlds more different. The advantage (and irony) of Kay’s approach is that it actually allows him access to a much richer cultural tapestry… because he doesn’t have to make it ALL out of whole cloth. And it’s clear he’s done tons of research.

I haven’t gotten to “Ysabel”…