What I wonder is whether certain things tried then and since almost forgotten are in fact worth revisiting. As a result, I think, it was a time when the idea of fantasy broadened new ideas and forms and voices were tried, even if certain assumptions (like a quasi-medieval-European setting) were often unquestioned. So far as I can learn, it seems that this was when fantasy really took root as a novel category - that is, when fantasy novels stopped being relatively rare events and began to flourish as a genre. More specifically, about the wave of fantasy fiction that began to be published in the late 70s, in the wake of The Sword of Shannara and the first Thomas Covenant books, and which over the following years developed into fantasy as we know it now. I’ve been thinking lately about fantasy in the 1980s.
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