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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theron" data-source="post: 3366685" data-attributes="member: 2326">Having spent much of my fantasy reading in the past year devoting myself to pre-fat fantasy series stuff, my bias is towards a loud and resounding No.Taking a slightly less biased approach, I'll stick to Sturgeon's Law.  Just because we've got more doesn't change the percentage that's not worth my time.  I don't blame D&D for this, in and of itself.  I do think that DragonLance taught the publishing industry a thing or two about branding, but to my mind (as someone who was working full time selling books at the time) the biggest change came with the ascent of Jordan and the interminable fat fantasy series (this includes A Song of Ice and Fire, which is easily my favorite work of fantasy committed to print.)  I think that's one reason I've come to enjoy Wagner's Kane novels so much.  They're lean and to the point.  If Wagner was going to take you on an aside and slow things down, you knew it would be over in a few pages, not an entire volume.  But as long as bloat sells, bloat will be printed.  'Tis the nature of the beastie.</blockquote>