[Dragaera] Boing!

[Joshua Kronengold]

Davdi Silverrock writes:
>> Fantasy readers (as opposed to mainstream ones) think Books of Magic,
>> Thomas the Rhymer, Tam Lin, Stardust, and Tithe when they think of
>> "Faerie", not Tinkerbell and fairy godmothers.
>And more recently, /Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell/.

Oh, yeah -- that (well, the only, so far) Susannah Clarke work
definately fits in (and has helped popularize) the subgenre.  Also
relevant and popular are Pratchett's works including fairies.

>Still, it depends on the context.  Doctorow's readers *aren't*
>necessarily familiar with the good fantasy works you mention, so I
>think he should have kept that in mind.

Possibly.  Doesn't bother me.

>And there is still the issue of the phrase "animal-like", which still
>makes *me* think of anthropomorphic furries.

This is a worse choice of words -- "sharing animal characteristics"
would be better, since the Dragaerans are far from what I'd think of
as animal-like.  Hell, the best of the furry comics aren't
necessarily animal-like; certainly I wouldn't descirbe Usagi Yojimbo's
characters that way.



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