Pern sucked too. The dragons were just about the lamest things my 16 year old brain ever encountered
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 04/01/2012 11:27:12 PM
Didn't say high fantasy, or epic fantasy, just fantasy.
For that matter McCaffrey's Pern novels are fantasy (until you get to the end of the series and discuver it is sci-fi) and there is minimal violence.
The global war is simply an often used plot device in fantasy, but it is not the only plot line allowed.
Bottom line: You can write Fantasy without massive violence.
For that matter McCaffrey's Pern novels are fantasy (until you get to the end of the series and discuver it is sci-fi) and there is minimal violence.
The global war is simply an often used plot device in fantasy, but it is not the only plot line allowed.
Bottom line: You can write Fantasy without massive violence.
One of the first scenes in Pern involves a guy picking a fight and stabbing another for no better reason than he was the badass hero who was never wrong, even when he blatantly contradicted himself. And even as a kid, I knew that dragons were, or should be, violence personified. The Pern dragons sucked so hard I stopped respecting my mother's views of books.
Cannoli
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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- 01/01/2012 03:35:50 PM
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- 03/01/2012 02:20:54 PM
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Citing only farcical books pretty much answers his question in the opposite way
- 03/01/2012 02:44:08 PM
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All 3 of the series are classified as fantasy.
- 03/01/2012 11:17:26 PM
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Pern sucked too. The dragons were just about the lamest things my 16 year old brain ever encountered
- 04/01/2012 11:27:12 PM
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