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Books read, early April.
Apr. 16th, 2011 02:36 pmI'm on the Non-Western Fantasy panel at Minicon, so I decided to read the books in that category that were on my to-read pile and my library list sooner rather than later. That doesn't make everything I read in the last fortnight a non-Western fantasy, but there is a pronounced tendency that is not accidental.
On the other hand, I want to note on the panel that I did not have to go asking around for recommendations, because there were already so many things on my list that I had added simply because they looked good, not because I knew I was going to be on a panel or was doing a project. If you read fantasy and you're only reading the Western-inspired stuff, you're totally missing out. There's still room for so much more to be written and published in this general grouping, but the field is no longer at a point where you have to be a specialist to know of good non-Western stuff that's out there, and that's a very, very good thing.
( books read, early April )
On the other hand, I want to note on the panel that I did not have to go asking around for recommendations, because there were already so many things on my list that I had added simply because they looked good, not because I knew I was going to be on a panel or was doing a project. If you read fantasy and you're only reading the Western-inspired stuff, you're totally missing out. There's still room for so much more to be written and published in this general grouping, but the field is no longer at a point where you have to be a specialist to know of good non-Western stuff that's out there, and that's a very, very good thing.
( books read, early April )
