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Originally Posted by BenG
That would be "Catch Trap" by Marion Zimmer Bradley, not Anne McCaffrey.
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Ah, thank you. you're quite right. Memory failed me.
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After reading Tolkien, I was really into fantasy for awhile. I didn't abandon Sci-Fi, though. But there isn't as much of a difference between the genres as people seem to believe. . Bradley's Darkover books are fantasy novels set in a science fiction universe. Andre Norton's Witch World series has a Science Fiction set-up, as does Robert Heinlein's "Glory Road."
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Yep. The fact that the dividing line is blurred or non-existent was my original point.
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I'm mostly turned off by the Fat Fantasy Trilogies turned out today. They owe more to Dungeons and Dragons than to Tolkien. I do like fantasy from authors like Jonathan Carroll and John Crowley, Guy Gavriel Kay and even Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman.
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Agreed. I haven't read Barker, but like the others you mention. Kay's most recent works are fantasy only in a theoretical sense. In _The Lions of Al-Rassan_, for example, the only fantastic element was the ability of one character to
always know what his father was doing, regradless of where Dad happened to be at the time. The rest of it was an alternate world history of the Iberian peninsula, recasting the struggle between the Franks and the Moors, with the Jews caught between.
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Dennis