I think Colleen makes an excellent point about genre expectations, and furthermore, that Walton is way off base in supporting such prescriptive norms about fantasy. You know that I enjoyed The Explosionist, my main criticism tending rather in the direction of characterisation.
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
I think Colleen makes an excellent point about genre expectations, and furthermore, that Walton is way off base in supporting such prescriptive norms about fantasy. You know that I enjoyed The Explosionist, my main criticism tending rather in the direction of characterisation.
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