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[sartorias]

Nerdy Reviews interviewed me. Some questions I often get asked, others, a first.

And here, silver fork novels and the beginning of romance, especially the tension between what readers wanted and reality.

Comments

[whswhs]

Of your list of "favorite books and authors" I count eleven that I definitely like, which is exactly half. That's a fair amount of overlap, probably well above chance. I've read two others, Lloyd Alexander and C.S. Lewis, but haven't much impulse to reread them; I think I somewhat share Tolkien's complaints about Narnia. . . .

[sartorias]

I still like Voyage of the Dawn Treader and the Silver Chair, and parts of a Horse and his Boy, but mostly I don't reread Lewis's kids books, or his SF at all. I like his voice in non fic.

[whswhs]

I would agree that Lewis's essays are more interesting reading than his fiction. And I rather enjoy the wit of his "Evolutionary Hymn," even though I actually hold some of the views he's making mock of in it.

[la_marquise_de_]

I always love to read about how other writers write, and how they perceive and explore characters. Thank you.

[sartorias]

Thank you for reading!

[carbonelle]

Okay, since you brought it up in the interview, and put it this way: As for the Hill Folk, humans and especially their political boundaries make about as much sense to them as, say, a swarm of wasps to us. Noisy, dangerous, and completely alien.

What is it about the Hill Folk that they don't have any Bianca Lavies Wasps at Home?

You know that somewhere out there is an utterly fascinated Temple Grandin of an entomologist who is making sense of wasp social patterns. What is it about the Hill Folk that there are no outliers like that?

And no, of course, I'm not trying to put a story bug in your brain. Perish, the thought :-)

[sartorias]

Hee! There is someone, a mage called Igkai, who is far more at home with the non-human world, but he shows up in later stories.

I use the wasps as figurative language for utterly different patterns as well as paradigms! *g*

[queenoftheskies]

What an awesome interview!

[sartorias]

Thanks for reading!