In Which Your Obedient Serpent Has His Suspicions Confirmed

[athelind]

Charles Stross reinforces my gut feeling that my Unpublished Magnum Opus is really Science Fiction, despite having all the surface trappings of Swords & Sorcery:

Loosely speaking, if Science Fiction is often a literature of disruption (in which change is, if not good, at least embraced), Fantasy is frequently a literature of consolation: a warm feather-bed of social conservativism disguised as nostalgic escapism, a longing for feudal certainties.

There's a recurrent strain of Noble Savagery in there that I may have to stamp out, though.

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