In Holland there is some contempt to the genre of fantasy.
Well, there’s some contempt everywhere.
Well, I can’t speak for the rest of the world, but what do you think of that?
I think it’s foolish. There are many more people who write fantasy than are tagged with the ghetto-phrase fantasist, or fantasy writer. If you read A.S. Byatt, or ‘The Magic Realists’ you’re reading fantasy. If you read any novel which has ghosts or spirits or time-weaving back and forward… many, many supposed main-stream writers write fantasy. And they just don’t call it fantasy, eh… the worlds in their books are not set in reality at all, and that is fantasy. And… eh, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , the epic of Gilgamesh , which is … all over, it’s a fantasy. I like to think of science fiction and horror as subsets of fantasy. They’re particular sorts of fantasy.
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