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[tigerfort]

There's a moderately interesting article on fantasy fiction on the Torygraph's website, to which I was pointed by Neil Gaiman's blog. While the author doesn't have anything to say that will stun anyone who actually reads modern fantasy novels, it makes a very pleasing change from the sort of article that normally gets published on the subject.

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[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

I think the argument is that Swift will have thought of himself as writing satire (which happened to have a fantastic setting), while Morris deliberately sat down and wrote something that was intended to be fantasy (in the modern sense, although he probably wouldn't have used the word that way).