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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9353020" data-attributes="member: 11760">I hope I wasn't phrasing this as &quot;everyone in Gen Z likes this kind of fantasy, and nothing else.&quot; I was answering the question of &quot;has fantasy actually changed in the past decade.&quot; Look through fantasy bestseller charts and you will see lots of new authors' names -- many of them women and POC -- writing about things like &quot;a retired half-orc adventurer and her best friend open a coffee shop.&quot;Gen Z folks can and do love more traditional styles of fantasy, but the rising tide of cozy fantasy -- which certainly owes a debt to Mercedes Lackey and other romantic fantasy (which is not the same as romance fiction, it should be noted; fiction genres are weird), as well as Tumblr -- is a new thing in the past decade and is largely read by younger readers.If you are a Gen Z reader who likes other forms of fantasy fiction, I did not intend to erase you or try to tell you what you or your generation should be reading. This was a purely reactive post, based on watching this interesting new wave of fantasy climb the bestseller charts, along with what's in fantasy TV shows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9353020, member: 11760"] I hope I wasn't phrasing this as "everyone in Gen Z likes this kind of fantasy, and nothing else." I was answering the question of "has fantasy actually changed in the past decade." Look through fantasy bestseller charts and you will see lots of new authors' names -- many of them women and POC -- writing about things like "a retired half-orc adventurer and her best friend open a coffee shop." Gen Z folks can and do love more traditional styles of fantasy, but the rising tide of cozy fantasy -- which certainly owes a debt to Mercedes Lackey and other romantic fantasy (which is not the same as romance fiction, it should be noted; fiction genres are weird), as well as Tumblr -- is a new thing in the past decade and is largely read by younger readers. If you are a Gen Z reader who likes other forms of fantasy fiction, I did not intend to erase you or try to tell you what you or your generation [I]should[/I] be reading. This was a purely reactive post, based on watching this interesting new wave of fantasy climb the bestseller charts, along with what's in fantasy TV shows. [/QUOTE]

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