![]() ![]() After all, what is fiction but a mirror to the larger story of human history? Or perhaps a magnifying glass would be a more apt piece of glassware.Īll of which is to say that, while I knew that I wanted my next few reads to be fiction, I harbored a certain degree of trepidation as I made my selections. ![]() Dan Carlin from Hardcore History says that history ruins fiction for him, and I can begin to understand his point. I don’t know how much of this is related to the simple difficulty of statistics, according to which the chances of selecting one of the necessarily smaller number of excellent books will be less than the probability of selecting from the enormously larger quantity of mediocre novels, and how much it is the result of my evolving tastes. Outside of a handful of standby authors I read consistently, when I pick up a new fantasy or science fiction book I am frequently disappointed. ![]() ![]() Part of why I read so much nonfiction and history these days is because it seems increasingly difficult to find really good speculative fiction. ![]()
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