tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200001341422162219.post8745215299778788719..comments2023-12-16T11:33:46.131+00:00Comments on Shabogan Graffiti: Shabcast 1Jack Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200001341422162219.post-49048089199521518692015-02-24T03:58:22.158+00:002015-02-24T03:58:22.158+00:00Finally managed to get around to reading this (it&...Finally managed to get around to reading this (it's been a busy month, with my wife's video blog) and loved it.<br /><br />Very interesting to hear you both talk about Material Social Progress, Game of Thrones, and the other wide ranging topics: Phil, I look forward to your Solarpunk novella. Seriously, I'll buy that right up.<br /><br />On GoT, I have this view of fantasy fiction that it divides neatly down the middle of the Atlantic, and would like both your thoughts, considering your two perspectives. Here's the divide that I see:<br /><br />English fantasy tends to be about the rise of a Reluctant Prince into a Great King - Harry to Henry V, Strider to Aragorn. Because this reinforces and placates the insecurities of a nation that is comfortable with its hereditary power structure.<br /><br />USAan fantasy is almost inevitably about the rise of a Disenfranchised Prince into a Worthy King - a bastard, or orphan, or farm boy, or lowly frontier noble, tends to Earn his way above his mostly nobly born counterparts. Can't think off the top of my head of anyone other than Garion becoming Belgarion in David Eddings' ridiculous series. And Jon Snow, of course. This is of course prevalent because it reinforces and placates the USA's own great myth of the self-made man, wresting the frontier under his own control because he was better than other men (or worked harder, or whatever).<br /><br />Thoughts? Comments? Dismissive ridicule? All more or less welcome. Just wanted to chat to someone smarter than me about this for a while.5tephehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03962515957468413884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200001341422162219.post-31187583717561848822015-02-16T14:37:31.318+00:002015-02-16T14:37:31.318+00:00I took out some of the more explicit death threats...I took out some of the more explicit death threats, that's all.Jack Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577724856056106531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200001341422162219.post-81329576510115587812015-02-16T04:39:37.531+00:002015-02-16T04:39:37.531+00:00Which questions was I too boring over to include? ...Which questions was I too boring over to include? lolElizabeth Sandiferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18337209180846868581noreply@blogger.com