(hahahaha the original plan was all one post so GUESS IT'S A GOOD THING I DIDN'T DO THAT.)
I would definitely agree with that! And so then when doing a post about the difference/similarities between sci-fi and fantasy, you'd have to ask, "okay, what's the fantasy equivalent of science fiction" it interests me that something like say Sword of Shanara would have the same problem as Quark's probable ones with the Foundation Trilogy even though they focus on COMPLETELY different things (okay I have never read either one--SoS I started, asked my dad if there were going to be ANY girls, he said no*, so I quit, and I just haven't ever actually picked up Foundation), but like I get why long science fiction would have problems but what is it about long fantasy (because oftentimes fantasy has to be a little long for the sake of worldbuilding) that would cause problems.
I LIKE THAT CONCEPT OF THAT BOOK /scribbles down
*this is one of the few moments where I remember doing that. Every time I read feminist narratives of readership that are like I SEARCHED FOR WOMEN IN BOOKS** AND COULDN'T FIND THEM AND FELT LIKE I WAS FORCED TO ONLY READ ABOUT MEN MEN MEN AND IT COLORED MY VIEW OF THE WORLD AT THE TIME I am wary of how these women were apparently super-aware of gender at the age of eight or even able to realize how much they were warped based on their memories of this time (although I can see how you can look back and trace how, over your life, this has been a problem). For the most part I never cared and it never bothered me (see ** for the reason why), but I was mad about SoS because it's this HUGE FAMOUS FANTASY SERIES and I wanted to read more of it so I would know about it but I couldn't even get through book one because there were no giiiiiiiiiiiirls (and the menfolks were all super-boring).
**to be fair I think I only ever read this is women of Tamora Pierce's generation, because they all went on to fix the problem by writing lots of books about girls
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I would definitely agree with that! And so then when doing a post about the difference/similarities between sci-fi and fantasy, you'd have to ask, "okay, what's the fantasy equivalent of science fiction" it interests me that something like say Sword of Shanara would have the same problem as Quark's probable ones with the Foundation Trilogy even though they focus on COMPLETELY different things (okay I have never read either one--SoS I started, asked my dad if there were going to be ANY girls, he said no*, so I quit, and I just haven't ever actually picked up Foundation), but like I get why long science fiction would have problems but what is it about long fantasy (because oftentimes fantasy has to be a little long for the sake of worldbuilding) that would cause problems.
I LIKE THAT CONCEPT OF THAT BOOK /scribbles down
*this is one of the few moments where I remember doing that. Every time I read feminist narratives of readership that are like I SEARCHED FOR WOMEN IN BOOKS** AND COULDN'T FIND THEM AND FELT LIKE I WAS FORCED TO ONLY READ ABOUT MEN MEN MEN AND IT COLORED MY VIEW OF THE WORLD AT THE TIME I am wary of how these women were apparently super-aware of gender at the age of eight or even able to realize how much they were warped based on their memories of this time (although I can see how you can look back and trace how, over your life, this has been a problem). For the most part I never cared and it never bothered me (see ** for the reason why), but I was mad about SoS because it's this HUGE FAMOUS FANTASY SERIES and I wanted to read more of it so I would know about it but I couldn't even get through book one because there were no giiiiiiiiiiiirls (and the menfolks were all super-boring).
**to be fair I think I only ever read this is women of Tamora Pierce's generation, because they all went on to fix the problem by writing lots of books about girls