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DrunkonDuty reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with
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My point is, it’s a major everything trope. It’s not specifically fantasy, unless you define fantasy as “LotR and it’s knock-offs”. -
DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.Hard agree. Discworld is definitely one of those fantasy series that doesn't romanticise the past. Can you imagine Granny Weatherwax...
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From what I know about 'stories', they tended to be warnings and often horrific. Stories around ancient pantheons tend to be not all...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.I have to confess, I've never read any Harry Turtledove or Poul Anderson. Does this make me a bad nerd? I can't agree with the bolded...
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Turtledove was a professor but shifted to full time writing in the 1980s. A collleague of his in this regard is Barbara Hambly, who left...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
I disagree. Mainstream fantasy is pretty obsessed with tropes and plots inspired by medieval romance. Heroes on quests, mythical...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
Pretty much the whole of the urban fantasy subgenre for a start (Dresden Files, Rivers of London etc). Steampunk-adjacent fantasy such...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
yeah I can accept that, I suppose I was focussing on the nihilism and skeptisim of the protagonist as the fantasy rather than the nature...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.@Tonguez I don't think I can agree about The Chronicles of Thomas Convenant. Pretty much everyone in the Land looks back to the time of...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.I had to google Caleb Carr. But I have read The Alienist. I enjoyed it. I agree it doesn't shy away from the grimier elements of life in...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The Dying Earth - post apocalyptic decadence and decay The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Tragic, cynical and morally ambivalent The...
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DrunkonDuty replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.@Clint_L I see your point about The First Law series. It's set in a romanticised past of warriors and kings, wise wizards, and even an...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
Harry Turtledove’s Darkness novels are in all ways a fantasy version of WWII, down to some pretty esoteric details. (His day job is as a...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
There are plenty of fantasy series that aren't backwards looking. They just aren't the ones that are focused on pseudo-medieval and...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to jdrakeh's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The Kreizler series by Caleb Carr is (mostly*) historical fiction/fantasy that really revels in the dirty side of the times. *The third...