“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.” KnowsShouldStoriesAnswersFantasyNovelKnow HowCryParticularReaderMereAccidentsLoyaltyEchoesBiographiesFiltersEscapistsHappenstance Book:The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition Source: The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition
“Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.” KnowsPastImaginationCleverSci FiTrickyMaturedCoyotesVividness Author:Tom Shippey
