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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1374305" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>I am troubled to see that so many people who have read the books are stumbling over such obvious fallacies of critical interpretation. Saying that Shannara was inspired by LotR overlooks so many critical observations that it is obvious that anyone making such an observation has deep personal flaws.</p><p></p><p>For you see, "Sword of Shannara" was Science Fiction, not fantasy. I am shocked that so many supposed readers have failed to point out that Brooks' world was the result of a post-apocalyptic rebuilding, in which men mutated into dwarves, gnomes, and other creatures. Druidic magic and the powers of the evil monsters can all be attributed to the expansion of telepathic ability, the existence of symbiotic nano-organisms, and the use of enormous hidden server forms and excellent wireless ports. It has been some time since I read the original work, but my understanding was that the evil villain was restricted to his dark mountain fortress because that was the only area in which he got 'net, and our hero uses the Sword of Shannara to disrupt his connection through a denial of service attack (spamming the villain with "You are evil" messages until the server crashed).</p><p></p><p>My doctoral dissertation will serve as conclusive evidence that Sword of Shannara is not only science fiction, but HARD science fiction, rigorously applied, and that it actually draws from <em>Riddley Walker</em> more than from <em>Lord of the Rings</em>, even when one takes into account the fact that <em>Riddley Walker</em> was not published until several years after the first Shannara book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1374305, member: 5171"] I am troubled to see that so many people who have read the books are stumbling over such obvious fallacies of critical interpretation. Saying that Shannara was inspired by LotR overlooks so many critical observations that it is obvious that anyone making such an observation has deep personal flaws. For you see, "Sword of Shannara" was Science Fiction, not fantasy. I am shocked that so many supposed readers have failed to point out that Brooks' world was the result of a post-apocalyptic rebuilding, in which men mutated into dwarves, gnomes, and other creatures. Druidic magic and the powers of the evil monsters can all be attributed to the expansion of telepathic ability, the existence of symbiotic nano-organisms, and the use of enormous hidden server forms and excellent wireless ports. It has been some time since I read the original work, but my understanding was that the evil villain was restricted to his dark mountain fortress because that was the only area in which he got 'net, and our hero uses the Sword of Shannara to disrupt his connection through a denial of service attack (spamming the villain with "You are evil" messages until the server crashed). My doctoral dissertation will serve as conclusive evidence that Sword of Shannara is not only science fiction, but HARD science fiction, rigorously applied, and that it actually draws from [i]Riddley Walker[/i] more than from [i]Lord of the Rings[/i], even when one takes into account the fact that [i]Riddley Walker[/i] was not published until several years after the first Shannara book. [/QUOTE]
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