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Originally Posted by kyrilson
Erikson's work isn't that way. He writes the world in a way that's more like real life.
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People aren't used to real life in books. They're used to verisimilitude. For a book that dabbles in real life, the Malazan series have incurred considerable income for the author, given that other books that try to buckle normal books, eg Mrs Dalloway and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not popular books by most standards. In your haste to absolve Erikson from 'blame', you did the Fantasy genre a disservice by limiting it to the farm boy trope. We all know, and expect, Fantasy books to be more diverse than that.