Thread: Do your books tend to be Mirrors or Windows?
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Old 12-18-2014, 09:06 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I would be inclined to dispute that SF&F are mostly windows. Many offer another way of viewing our own lives/society - a distorted mirror, if you will. To take just one example of which I am a great fan: Terry Pratchett's Discworld. What makes them such a treasure (to me, anyway) is how real the people seem, despite the very definitely fantasy setting.

It seems to me that action-escapism books, whatever the setting, tend to be the most like windows. More character driven books, whatever the setting, tend to be more like mirrors. I don't see it as an either/or thing. To me, many of the very best books are both.
Well said, I couldn't agree more!

One of the reasons Pratchett is one of my favorite authors...
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