Yahtzee CroshawThere's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.
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The standard fantasy setting, as I see it, is a place where wars are won by wizards, where magic works better than science, and which has the history of the entire world tied up in a single book or set of books. The work is wonderful, imaginative, appealing. But it leaves me with the sense that this is how things are supposed to be. It's not how they are.
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