(November 5, 2021 at 11:02 am)Spongebob Wrote: Understand that I've read tons of fantasy works and after a point it seems like I'm reading the same story over and over again. I agree that most authors derive something from others, but for some reason the fantasy genre seems to be the most cut and paste, maybe with the exception of mystery, which I don't read much. I've also read tons of SF and it, too is largely derivative, but for some reason it still offers a much wider realm of variation. At times it has appeared that writing fantasy has been more of a willingness to participate in a specific club where writing SF is more like charting new territory. I can easily find two SF authors that have near zero similarity in their work, but doing that with fantasy is pretty difficult. One author whom I feel did chart new fantasy territory was Michael Moorecock.
*Note: This opinion, whether it's mine or someone else's doesn't necessarily make it elitist. Why use such a pejorative adjective?
Lol. Yeah, I'm the sensitive one.
I'm passionate about the stuff I like and I've heard the Tolkien dick sucking before.
