![]() ![]() So given all these myths, all these examinations of the possible… how can I not imagine more? How can I not envision an epic set somewhere other than medieval England, about someone other than an awkward white boy? How can I not use every building-block of my history and heritage and imagination when I make shit up?Īnd how dare I disrespect that history, profane all my ancestors’ suffering and struggles, by giving up the freedom to imagine that they’ve won for me. ![]() I haven’t even begun to explore the non-African stuff. And more, so much more, just within the African components of my heritage. They never stayed for long, they just needed him to see them. This genre is rooted in the epic - and the truth is that there are plenty of epics out there which feature people like me. So after Club Ménage, they’d visited a few of Banovíc’s haunts around the city without her. ![]() ![]() Epic fantasy is not merely what Tolkien made it. “And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies of disenchanted white men?īut. ![]()
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