The Fantastic Appeal Of Fantasy
Posted at 12:44PM Sunday 13 Apr 2008
The more rational the world gets, with super-science all around us, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction.Publishers love the genre because it reaches all people - highbrow readers attracted to the skilful writing of M John Harrison, say, or those simply wanting a well-told adventure story by the best-selling Robert Jordan, men and women in equal measure, young and old.
Feature in The Telegraph
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