[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Memory of Light
- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:26:03 -0500
Hi, Roger.
The Wheel of Time is sollidly fantasy, in my opinion. Brandon Sanderson
took over after Jordan's death and he didn't bring in any science fiction
elements. He did a great job with the books he wrote; I actually like them
better than Jordan's.
Christina
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I am not sure that I understand. I have read books that mix science
fiction and fantasy. That irritates me. Stephen King's The Stand is an
example. It was a really good science fiction novel that was, as far as I am
concerned, messed up by the fantasy elements that were added. The Wheel of
Time series seems to be a different matter though. I read some of the first
volumes and kind of fell away from it before other authors took over from
Robert Jordan and they seemed pretty solidly fantasy to me. I would suppose
that when other authors took over there would be differences, differences in
style at the very least, but I did not see much room for science fiction
elements to be introduced. The entire world building that went into the
setting seemed to exclude it. Are you saying that the subsequent authors
introduced science fiction elements into it? I suppose I did see that in the
Sword of Shannara series. It was a solid fantasy and then Terry Brooks
decided that he wanted it to be science fiction, so he started writing
prequels to force it to be science fiction. The trouble is that the other
novels had already been written as fantasy and he was trying to drive square
pegs into a round hole. The prequels had a flavor of fantasy to them too. I
didn't feel like it worked at all. I certainly hope that something like that
was not done to the Wheel of Time series.
On 1/12/2013 2:15 AM, Dornetta wrote:
You are right Roger, it is fantasy but still science fiction and/or
fantasy...I do neither...thanks to the Never-ending Story and a few
others...those talking trees scared the Hades outta me!
Netta
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