Re: [rehfans] Thud and Blunder revisited

[Mike Mott]

> Anderson seems to want the reader to be dragged through every brothel and
> chamber-pot an author can imagine.  Why?  How does realism enhance
> fantasy?  How does making that imaginary world over THERE look like the
> real world HERE improve the story?
>
> Like I said: it's not the believability that he asks for which bothers
> me.  It's the meticulous duplication of details from our world's past (or,
> at least, the past as we imagine it to be) that I find dissatisfying.  That
> makes the fantasy genre more like a pseudo-historical one.
>
>

I get your gist here: in other words, cut to the chase.  Tell the story and
don't kill us with trivia.

I agree with this one hundred percent.

--Mike