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<blockquote data-quote="Haffrung" data-source="post: 8113726" data-attributes="member: 6776259"><p>Authors like Mervyn Peake and Gene Wolfe have never stopped being regarded as influential and great. And few of the works on the list published in the last decade have had enough impact to be regarded as great, and they certainly haven't had time to be regarded as influential.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Brandon Sanderson's books are awful in terms of writing - that didn't stop Mistborn from making the list. J.K. Rowling and Cassandra Clare aren't exactly master prose stylists either. A lot of popular fantasy is poorly written. And if the quality of prose was a major criteria, the absence of Peake, Wolfe, Patricia McKillip, and Robin Hobb is even more baffling.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Agreed that critics tend to have a better sense of the history of a genre or medium that most authors do. But still, I think if you tasked several contemporary film directors with drawing up a list of the greatest films of all time, they would demonstrate far greater appreciation of the history and breadth of film than this panel demonstrated for fantasy. You wouldn't see entire genres of film excluded the way this list excludes entire genres of fantasy.</p><p></p><p>This Time list is a deliberate 'corrective' of popular and critical opinion on the history of the Fantasy genre. It's essentially a political statement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Haffrung, post: 8113726, member: 6776259"] Authors like Mervyn Peake and Gene Wolfe have never stopped being regarded as influential and great. And few of the works on the list published in the last decade have had enough impact to be regarded as great, and they certainly haven't had time to be regarded as influential. Brandon Sanderson's books are awful in terms of writing - that didn't stop Mistborn from making the list. J.K. Rowling and Cassandra Clare aren't exactly master prose stylists either. A lot of popular fantasy is poorly written. And if the quality of prose was a major criteria, the absence of Peake, Wolfe, Patricia McKillip, and Robin Hobb is even more baffling. Agreed that critics tend to have a better sense of the history of a genre or medium that most authors do. But still, I think if you tasked several contemporary film directors with drawing up a list of the greatest films of all time, they would demonstrate far greater appreciation of the history and breadth of film than this panel demonstrated for fantasy. You wouldn't see entire genres of film excluded the way this list excludes entire genres of fantasy. This Time list is a deliberate 'corrective' of popular and critical opinion on the history of the Fantasy genre. It's essentially a political statement. [/QUOTE]
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