Per a conversation with my co-worker
Nov. 18th, 2009 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kilroyMore or less directly quoted:
"The whole point of fantasy is that you do something that you can't do in the real world. Bad fantasy is basically just the real world with elves; good fantasy takes elves, imagines the changes they would cause in the world, and then writes a story that would be impossible without those changes."
"The whole point of fantasy is that you do something that you can't do in the real world. Bad fantasy is basically just the real world with elves; good fantasy takes elves, imagines the changes they would cause in the world, and then writes a story that would be impossible without those changes."