Daniel Abraham reports on the 'Epic fantasy Symposium'

Filed by: Darren on November 28, 2007 at 13:29
Filed In: Writing

Ed Ashby points me in the direction of some particularly interesting reading from the blog of fantasy novelist Daniel Abraham, whose debut Shadow and Betrayal [Amazon], the first part of The Long Price Quartet has recently been published in the UK by Orbit Books and is currently sitting on my to-be-read shelf, demanding my attention.

He's currently presenting the conclusions of a recent meeting-of-minds, dubbed the 'Epic Fantasy Symposium', that featured four and a half hours of conversation between George R.R. Martin, S.M. Stirling, Melinda Snodgrass, Walter Jon Williams, Ian Tregillis, Ty Franck and himself.

Plenty of deep thought (and food for more) on the foundations, tropes, characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of epic fantasy (note: epic fantasy specifically, as opposed to 'fantasy' as wider genre umbrella).