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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1612246" data-attributes="member: 812">I like. It sums up a lot of the reasons I like Erikson so much. But it misses the primary one:Erikson is writing fantasy novels because the stories he's telling REQUIRE this genre. There is no other way for him to talk about the things he's trying to talk about -- the scope of history and the sweep of evolution and continental changes. He's getting at myth and how the far, far distant past affects us here and now in ways we can't even comprehend. Without fantasy he's got no way to tell this story.Which is a welcome thing in an industry of what are mostly pot-boiler romances with swords.And extra points for "Extruded Fantasy Product" -- that's BRILLIANT.</blockquote>