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<blockquote data-quote="PaulKemp" data-source="post: 3367164" data-attributes="member: 2809"><p>TeflonBilly,</p><p></p><p>All of the titles you mentioned are fifteen year old books. Were you to look (or ask around) you might find some books to your liking these days. </p><p></p><p>In any event, imagine this: a reader picks up Feist's Mithgar work and Brooks' Shanarra work (I'm picking these two because I think they share some similarities in style, tone, and subject matter) and likes neither. On the basis of that, our reader concludes that all fantasy fiction is rubbish. </p><p></p><p>The problem with that conclusion (at least I think it's a problem) is that our reader has now missed out on R. Scott Bakker, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, and a host of others whose spec fic is as different from Feist and Brooks as night is from day. </p><p></p><p>Similarly, there is no reason to group shared world/tie-in fiction together in a mass and conclude, based on a bad experience with a group of books fifteen years ago, that all such books are "bad." They aren't. Authors differ tremendously in terms of style, tone, talent, etc. </p><p></p><p>I suppose my position is this: I don't mind (much) when a reader criticizes my work. But I'd like the criticism to be based on my work in particular, not on the fact that it belongs to a category generally. </p><p></p><p>Paul</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PaulKemp, post: 3367164, member: 2809"] TeflonBilly, All of the titles you mentioned are fifteen year old books. Were you to look (or ask around) you might find some books to your liking these days. In any event, imagine this: a reader picks up Feist's Mithgar work and Brooks' Shanarra work (I'm picking these two because I think they share some similarities in style, tone, and subject matter) and likes neither. On the basis of that, our reader concludes that all fantasy fiction is rubbish. The problem with that conclusion (at least I think it's a problem) is that our reader has now missed out on R. Scott Bakker, Scott Lynch, Elizabeth Bear, and a host of others whose spec fic is as different from Feist and Brooks as night is from day. Similarly, there is no reason to group shared world/tie-in fiction together in a mass and conclude, based on a bad experience with a group of books fifteen years ago, that all such books are "bad." They aren't. Authors differ tremendously in terms of style, tone, talent, etc. I suppose my position is this: I don't mind (much) when a reader criticizes my work. But I'd like the criticism to be based on my work in particular, not on the fact that it belongs to a category generally. Paul [/QUOTE]
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