NP : Was " genres are literature too" thread

[jochen stremmel]

I would call the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos - a serious genre epic.
For me great fun to read as well.

2012/10/14 Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>:
> Maybe it's just no one has written a serious genre epic? Problem with genre
> (fiction) seems to me to be that it can stray too easily into camp. Can't
> imagine a true genre epic because the ground's been trodden barren.
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> P.
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> On 14 October 2012 09:51, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I cannot find the lat post on this, from Paul M., I think, but posting one
>> differing opinion
>> Still seems necessary to me.
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>> On theme: which is in my use not just a topic or subject but a vision of a
>> topic or subject.
>> War:     Topic of The Iliad and All quiet on the Western Front, for
>> example. Themes quite different.
>>
>> And perhaps themes even the best mysteries cannot have?
>>
>> But I' m now threadbare on this thread
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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