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One way to avoid Tolkien’s shadow was to branch into related genres. Cue weird/ubran fantasy (e.g., Perdido Street Station), historical fantasy (e.g., The Spiri
by macleginn 6y ago
One way to avoid Tolkien’s shadow was to branch into related genres. Cue weird/ubran fantasy (e.g., Perdido Street Station), historical fantasy (e.g., The Spirit Ring), or pseudo-fantasy (the Ghormengast series, The Buried Giant). Interestingly, it seems that only works from last category have some real literary value.
- saalweachter 6y agoI've fallen for the LitRPG genre, in all its variety. A lot of it is very Tolkien-esque, given Tolkien's influence on D&D and its influence on RPGs that followed, but it has a different feel than the fantasy of the 70's-90's that lived deep in his shadow.