[ExI] fatasies

[Damien Broderick]

On 3/27/2010 1:38 PM, Max More wrote:

>>  Alas, sf has been mostly
>> replaced by vast fatasies (sic), which are mostly not nearly as
>> interesting as Stross's faux-fantasies-sf-in-disguise.

> Ha! Did you just coin that?

Alas, no. British sf writer and lit prof Adam Roberts, probably on his blog.

(My impression, which might be wrong, is that most of the US fatasy 
writers are themselves lumberingly obese--although the Aussie women 
fatasy scribblers tend to be slenderish and attractive. Dunno why.)**

Damien Broderick

** e.g.: <http://www.alisongoodman.com.au/photogallery/slides/IMG_0463.html>

<http://www.gavin-andrew.com/forsyth.html>

<http://romanceaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/rowena72.jpg>

<http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/images-school/staff/kimwilkins.jpg>