Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Wasn't going to blog today, but the Toronto Globe and Mail online ticked me off with an article quoting an "expert" who said that in troubled times people turn from Science Fiction to Fantasy, because Fantasies are black and white stories of Good vs. Evil. WTF? There's nothing inherent to the definition of Fantasy that requires the story to be Good vs. Evil - Sir Apropos of Nothing sure as hell wasn't, and I could cite rafts of Fantasy works that are morally ambiguous (or at least nuanced in their conflicts): Steven Brust's Dragaera series, for example, or Terry Pratchet's Diskworld novels. And gee, wasn't 1984, a Science Fiction classic, a pretty clearcut story about Good and Evil? What about The War of the Worlds, the book I mean? True, H.G. Wells never explicitly calls the Martians Evil, but they do go about destroying Western Civilization, which is pretty antisocial if you ask me.
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