{"id":22826,"date":"2013-10-21T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22826"},"modified":"2013-10-21T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:41:11","slug":"epic-conversations-is-epic-fantasy-currently-enjoying-a-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/epic-conversations-is-epic-fantasy-currently-enjoying-a-resurgence\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Epic Fantasy Currently Enjoying A Resurgence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past weeks I&#8217;ve been enjoying a few epic conversations here on the blog. Mainly this spun out of some of the observations around epic fantasy that I saw arising during the Gemmell Awards voting period, and I am interested to know what <em>you<\/em> think.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the topics we&#8217;ve discussed have been:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/what-makes-fantasy-epic\/\">What Makes Fantasy Epic<\/a>?\u00a0 and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/what-makes-for-the-new-in-epic-fantasy\/\">What Makes for \u201cThe New&#8221; in Epic Fantasy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, this week&#8217;s question arises out of last week&#8217;s discussion. We had got onto cycles in Fantasy and Paul Weimer alluded to &#8216;sword and sorcery&#8217; being hot now, but having had a dry spell for some time.<\/p>\n<p>I also perceive epic fantasy as having had a dry spell but currently enjoying a resurgence&#8212;but am I right? And if you agree, what do you think has driven the resurgence?<\/p>\n<p>I would love to hear your views. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past weeks I&#8217;ve been enjoying a few epic conversations here on the blog. Mainly this spun out of some of the observations around epic fantasy that I saw arising during the Gemmell Awards voting period, and I am interested to know what you think. So far, the topics we&#8217;ve discussed have been: What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22826"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22830,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22826\/revisions\/22830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}