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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8612651" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, the thing to remember is that the 80's is when fantasy as a genre really gets rolling.  Prior to the 80's, there just isn't all that much published.  Not comparatively anyway.  There's very likely more fantasy published in the 80's than there was in the previous 80 years.  And a lot of it was ... well... not very good.  Granted, lots of the stuff before the 80's wasn't very good either, but, there was so much less of it, that it was pretty easy to find the gems.  To put it in perspective, prior to the 80's, there were entire years when you might get a couple of dozen original fantasy titles.  Total.  By the end of the 80's, you generally are getting several dozen original fantasy novels in a month.And that's not including media tie in stuff.</blockquote>