If somebody can't stand what you say here, I very much doubt they can stand your books -after all, it's you inside those pages all the same!
Ah, but you see, it has been my personal experience, these past fourteen years or so, that authors of fantastic fiction, dark fantasy, and sf tend to be excruciatingly mundane people. A few like to think of themselves as different, as mavericks, as avant garde, but they rarely ever are. Same with the readers of these fictions.
I mean...
It's one thing when I write about magic (and/or magick), and another when I consider it seriously as something that exists outside fantasy.
It's one thing when I write a parahuman character — Umachandra Murdin or Narcissa Snow or whoever — but it's quite another thing when I profess to be a parahuamnist myself.
It's one thing to write misanthropic chacters, and another thing expose myself as a misanthrope.
And so on.
And so forth.
A lot of people get very uncomfortable when those "lines" between reality and fantasy are crossed or obscured or exposed as illusory. Never mind that that a primary purpose of art should be the instilling of discomfort.
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Date: 2006-12-14 09:22 pm (UTC)Ah, but you see, it has been my personal experience, these past fourteen years or so, that authors of fantastic fiction, dark fantasy, and sf tend to be excruciatingly mundane people. A few like to think of themselves as different, as mavericks, as avant garde, but they rarely ever are. Same with the readers of these fictions.
I mean...
It's one thing when I write about magic (and/or magick), and another when I consider it seriously as something that exists outside fantasy.
It's one thing when I write a parahuman character — Umachandra Murdin or Narcissa Snow or whoever — but it's quite another thing when I profess to be a parahuamnist myself.
It's one thing to write misanthropic chacters, and another thing expose myself as a misanthrope.
And so on.
And so forth.
A lot of people get very uncomfortable when those "lines" between reality and fantasy are crossed or obscured or exposed as illusory. Never mind that that a primary purpose of art should be the instilling of discomfort.
It's not about privacy.