Tolkien and Martin Don’t Have Much to Answer For (Or, Hey, Bad Arguments About Fantasy)
Apparently A.J. Dalton doesn’t care for J.R.R. Tolkien or George R.R. Martin. Here’s the moment when I stopped reading: They have both come to dominate the genre in which I write, that’s what. All fantasy gets compared to them. They are the standard. They are the definition of fantasy. Anything too different to them doesn’t […]