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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
meg_evonne:
And thank you once more for filling my 'wish list' with highly probable enjoyment items.
Kali:
I'm liking Control Point so far, but I admit, I went sort of unamused when the book said "Women are usually healers..."
I've stayed unamused.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Kali on January 31, 2012, 06:53:28 PM ---I'm liking Control Point so far, but I admit, I went sort of unamused when the book said "Women are usually healers..."
I've stayed unamused.
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Unfortunately, that's an easy assumption-trap to fall into. I have a VERY hard time imagining Myke being that misogynistic. I think it's more along the lines of genetic predispositions, similar to men tending to be more muscular, single-tasking and concrete-thinking and women being more dextrous, multi-tasking and abstract-thinking (and yes, there IS more to the thought-style division than upbringing/environment). So I wouldn't read into it.
jeno:
--- Quote from: Kali on January 31, 2012, 06:53:28 PM ---I'm liking Control Point so far, but I admit, I went sort of unamused when the book said "Women are usually healers..."
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...really? :-\
What I find weird about this particular stereotype is that it's not even true, historically. Maybe it's a matter of people getting two different concepts (nurturing and healing) mixed up with traditional gender roles. Are women usually mothers? Well, yeah, with the varying degrees of nurturing that tends to involve. But have women, in the past and in the present, usually been healers? No.
Except, apparently, when completely made up magic systems become involved. Then suddenly women are all about the healing. ::)
jeno:
--- Quote from: Aminar on January 31, 2012, 04:19:35 PM ---Personally I feel like Urban Fantasy has stagnated itself the same way High Fantasy did.
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Fantasy in general seems like it's turning over a new leaf with authors like Rothfuss, Lynch, Abercrombie, etc. No trolls or elves to be found in that lot.
Also, I think all the paranormal YA that's out there flooding the markets has had an affect, too. Publishing runs in cycles and it kind of looks like UF's cycle is slowing down. (and given that YA has been trending more toward dystopias and the like for a while now, I wonder if we won't see a surge of similiar 'low scifi' stuff in the main genres soon.)
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