On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:11:49AM -0500, The Fool wrote:
> Jordan:
> There are a number of themes that run through the series. There's the
> good old basic struggle between good and evil, with an emphasis on the
> difficulty in recognising what is good and what is evil.
...
> Another recurring theme is lack of information, and the mutability of
> information. No one knows everything.
Interesting that this is coming from Jordan. I was never terribly
impressed by his writing.
On the other hand, this sounds like a perfect description of George
R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, which is probably the best
fantasy I've ever read. Most of the characters are quite gray (neither
black nor white), and some of the most 3 dimensional characters I've
ever read, in SF or mainstream. And Martin does a wonderful job of
keeping track of each character's POV and what info they know and do not
know and letting us see through their eyes. Some people complain that it
is too graphic or that they don't understand why a character they liked
was killed off. I call this Realism in Fantasy (tm).
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