{"id":13122,"date":"2012-03-05T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2012-03-04T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:47:03","slug":"fantasy-fiction-at-the-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/03\/05\/fantasy-fiction-at-the-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Fiction At The Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m reading Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon<\/strong><\/span><\/a> right now and I’m loving the unholy fuck out of it. Arabic myth with a protagonist who’s a fat, old ghul<\/em> hunter? Oh. Oh<\/em>. Oh yeah.<\/p>\n

(Needless to say, you should go and read it posthaste.)<\/p>\n

It’s kind of scratching an itch I’d forgotten I had, which is for fantasy fiction that goes well beyond that Tolkeinist purview to be brave and bold and do something unexpected with the very notion of fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, talk to me. Make some recommendations. What would I like? What fantasy is out there — now or from the past — that operates outside the comfort zone and does something new instead of regurgitating all the same old tropes and archetypes and hero-plot piffle?<\/p>\n

Further: what do you want to see in fantasy that’s just never represented? What niches need filling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, talk to me. Make some recommendations. What would I like? What fantasy is out there — now or from the past — that operates outside the comfort zone and does something new instead of regurgitating all the same old tropes and archetypes and hero-plot piffle? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-13122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-otherwriters","8":"tag-writing","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3pE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}