Thread: Is all fantasy derivative of Tolkien? How to prove it isn't?
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Old 10-11-2014, 03:33 PM   #83
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Is all fantasy derivative of Tolkien? How to prove it isn't?
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Originally Posted by varlog View Post
Going back to OP original question: nobody here have mentioned work of Haruki Murakami. It is high fantasy (certainly not SF) and has nothing to do with Tolkien.
Murakami works with magic realism, which is so far away from high fantasy as possible, and it belongs barely to fantasy genre.

I don't even consider him as fantasy writer.
He's as contemporary as they come with elements of magic realism.
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