Fantasy-bøker "Serieprodusert", hva synes dere?

[Elyas Machera]

Jeg har i det siste fått en følelse av at mye fantasi-litteratur, faktisk i større grad enn mye annet er serieprodusert. Forfatterne skriver tonnevis med bøker med nesten identisk historie og karakterer. Eksempel er f.eks David Eddings med The Belgariad og The Mallorean som er nesten prikk like The Elenium og The Tamuli.

Jeg synes også at Robert Jordan begynner å bli skremmende lik Margit Sandemo sine bøker, nemlig stillestående og ikke veldig interessante.

 

Hva synes dere?

Er Fantasy-sjangeren blitt for mye kapital-interessert i det siste, eller er det bare jeg som burde ha lagt meg nå?

Endret 24. juli 2004 av Elyas Machera

[Hawkwind]

Er Fantasy-sjangeren blitt for mye kapital-interessert i det siste, eller er det bare jeg som burde ha lagt meg nå?

Fantasy-genren har blitt rimelig stereotyp de siste 15-20 åra. Alt for mange bøker er av typen "unge mennesker som er/blir utvalgte til å redde Landet/verden/universet".

 

Heldigvis er det skrevet mye bra i genren også - legger ved noen bakside-blurber fra bøker jeg har og liker - så kan du jo sammenligne dette med hva som står som beskrivelser på bøkene du leser; og se om du ser noen forskjell ;-)

 

Fred Saberhagen: The First Book of Swords (fra 1983)

"Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives..."

 

Jack Vance: Lyonesse II - The Green Pearl (fra 1985)

"In Lyonesse II, Jack Vance's magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder isle's from whence King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. Warring kings renew their conflicts, opposing magicians devise even more strange and sinister strategems, the worlds of faerie and human folk meet and mingle with ever more eldritch consequences. "

 

Mercedes Lackey: Arrow's Fall (fra 1988)

"With Elspeth, the heir to the throne of Valdemar, come of marriageable age, Talia; the Queen's own Herald returns to court to find Queen and heir beset by diplomatic intrigue as various forces vie for control of Elspeth's future. But just as Talia is about to uncover the traitor behind all these intrigues, she is sent off on a mission to the neighboring kingdom, chosen by the queen to investigate the worth of a marriage proposal from Prince Ancar. And to her horror, Talia soon discovers there is far more going on at Prince Ancar's court than just preparation for a hoped-for royal wedding. For a different magic than that of the Heralds is loose in Ancar's realm - an evil and ancient sorcery that may destroy all of Valdemar unless Talia can send warning to her Queen in time"

 

Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer (fra 1980)

"Severian was born into the ancient guild sworn to torture and kill on command. His is a story of a time so many millions of years hence, that all present time is forgotten. It is a tale of a Torturer, fallen victim to love and made to wander through a world where magic and acience are one"

 

Fritz Leiber: Swords of Lankhmar (fra 1968)

"One of them was a huge, brawny, full-bearded barbarian from the northlands of Newhon. His name was Ffafhrd, his weapon a broadsword. The other was a small, nimble man dressed all in grey. Men called him the Grey Mouser, and he carried both rapier and dirk. They were known throughout the city of Lankhmar as brawlers, cutpurses and rogues. But they were the most dangerous fighting-men in Lankhmar, so when the Overlord Glipkerio Kistomerces needed guards for an all-important shipment of gifts to a neighboring monarch, he chose them for the task."

 

Michael Moorcock: The Ice Schooner (fra 1969)

"A lone skier makes his perilous way across the frozen waste that is the fourth mantle of the Ice Age. Captain Konrad Arflane is a captain no more - there is no ice schooner for him at Brershill. Out on the desolate ice he finds an old man on the verge of death - Lord Rorsefne of Friesgalt, the great city which is now eclipsing Brershill. For reasons which are obscure even to himself, he saves the old man's life. When he recovers, Rorsefne offers him a strange commission: Sail the mighty Ice Schooner "Ice Spirit" on it's knife-edged runners north across the ice and snow to find the legendary city of New York, whose fabled towers are said to jut from a plain of smooth ice"

 

Piers Anthony: Vale of the Vole (fra 1987)

"It all started when Metria, the shape shifting demoness, took up residence in Esk's secret tree house. Esk -needed- his hideaway. When your mother's a nymph and father part-ogre, you have to be able to get away from it all now and again. But Metria was determined to force him out. She tried violence, threats, wheedling and seduction. Seduction nearly worked. So it was that he set out through the kingdom of Xanth, to find and ask help from the Good Magician. Travelling the enchanted pathways, first he saved Chex, winged she-centaur, from the overheated attentions of a small but nasty dragon. And then they met Volney the Vole, who had a real problem. And so one thing just kept on leading to another...and another..."

[MrLee]

Jeg synes også at Robert Jordan begynner å bli skremmende lik Margit Sandemo sine bøker, nemlig stillestående og ikke veldig interessante.

 

Hva synes dere?

begynner å bli? hehe

[Elyas Machera]

Så sant, så sant

 

Anyway, det er mange bokserier som er mye verre, og mye mindre originale enn de jeg har nevnt nå, ville bare bruke to kjente eksempler.

Endret 24. juli 2004 av Elyas Machera