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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 9604757" data-attributes="member: 30438">I just don't want to read these giant tomes of fiction anymore. So many of them to me feel like they could've had 100-300 pages trimmed off to make them better works. I would posit that had GRRM written A Song of Ice and Fire series as, say, a dozen 300-page novels, he would not have ended up stuck with so much time in between novels, let alone the ever-widening gulf between the last published book and now.I find myself myself having good luck with modern novellas. Tor Books has some really solid novellas in various flavors of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, for example. There are a lot of complicated things about the intersection of influential fiction, racism, and mental illness (as both REH and HPL would've most likely been diagnosed as dealing with today). But to argue that racism does not infiltrate their fiction in varying degrees is just counterfactual.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 9604757, member: 30438"] I just don't want to read these giant tomes of fiction anymore. So many of them to me feel like they could've had 100-300 pages trimmed off to make them better works. I would posit that had GRRM written A Song of Ice and Fire series as, say, a dozen 300-page novels, he would not have ended up stuck with so much time in between novels, let alone the ever-widening gulf between the last published book and now. I find myself myself having good luck with modern novellas. Tor Books has some really solid novellas in various flavors of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror. Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, for example. There are a lot of complicated things about the intersection of influential fiction, racism, and mental illness (as both REH and HPL would've most likely been diagnosed as dealing with today). But to argue that racism does not infiltrate their fiction in varying degrees is just counterfactual. [/QUOTE]

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