'Fantasy author Scott Lynch shows he's a gentleman, not a bastard'

[soleiltropiques]

'Fantasy author Scott Lynch shows he's a gentleman, not a bastard'

In all the whirl of investigating self-publishing, I'd forgotten that I read my first originally self-published novel years ago. It was Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora. Lynch had been posting parts of his novel on his blog and Simon Spanton, editor at Gollancz, spotted them

Comments

[quizzicalsphinx]

I repeat my argument about the majority of the fantasy genre: there are dragons, but somehow female empowerment is unrealistic?

[mercystars]

dragons, elves, wizards, magic spells, mythical animals, but yeah, female empowerment in any way/shape/form = pc run amok

[maladaptive]

I've heard that it's medieval Europe with dragons in, so you have to expect the conventions of magic and dragons and fairies. That's the change from reality. Not "women did more than live locked away in towers, give birth, and die to inspire the men around them."

[thecityofdis]

Precisely! Someone was complaining about racial diversity in fantasy a while back (I think specifically the fact that they used color-blind casting for BBC's MERLIN), and Sarah Rees Brennan was like, "What is that about? 'Dragons, yes, but black people? You go too far!'"

[kaizopp]

Regarding Merlin, the very most annoying thing about that argument is that there WERE black people in Britain at that time.

[thecityofdis]

Oh, I'm well aware.

[soleiltropiques]

And black female empowerment is apparently even less so.

/sarcasm