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His_Steveness
05/19/09

In reply to Joyce Carol Oates And Jeff Vandermeer, Together At Last
I got as far as "postfantasy fictions" and sprained my brain.

Since Fantasy is a genre that is still being written, a lot, how can something be "post"-fantasy? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Grey_Area
05/19/09

@His_Steveness: The new

Miéville novel is very different from any New Wierd/Urban Fantasy stuff I can think of, he's gone past elves on motorcycles of steampunky cities with monsters. I'll be reviewing it here soonish.
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His_Steveness
05/19/09

@Grey_Area: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh, I understand this is (supposed to be) something new and different, it's just the terminology I can't wrap my head around.
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Grey_Area
05/19/09

@His_Steveness: Yah, that's a pretty clumsy term. Personally I abhor all the labels and sub-genre classifications, but without them how will marketing people know what to sell us?
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Pope John Peeps II
05/19/09

@His_Steveness: In literary theory terms, the word "post-" simply means something that claims to have absorbed and then succeeded past all the rules of a given genre. I.e. "post-modernism" refers to the literature that emerged when authors started to venture past the established parameters of "modernist" fiction. Same with "post-structuralist", which was largely a theoretical concern.
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Plague
05/19/09

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Are the Vandermeer's still involved here? Haven't seen anything by them on IO9 in aaaaaaaaaaages.
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Charlie Jane Anders
05/19/09

@Plague: They're not really writing for us any more, but they're still io9 contributors because of their outstanding past contributions.
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