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You've got pharmaceutical-grade beauty, the cocaine of good looks.īiologists call this "supernormal stimulus" Our beauty receptors receive more stimulation than they were evolved to handle we're seeing more beauty in one day than our ancestors did in a lifetime.
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But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form.
Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. That's when it becomes addictive.īeauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. I don't know if he's right, but I'm excited. The critic Gabe Chouinard has said that we're entering a new period, a renaissance in the creative radicalism of fantasy that hasn't been seen since the New Wave of the sixties and seventies, and in echo of which he has christened the Next Wave. This is fantasy not as comfort-food, but as challenge. Things are gritty and tricky, just as in real life. Characters are more than cardboard cutouts, and they're not defined by race or sex. Where traditional fantasy has been rural and bucolic, this is often urban, and frequently brutal. Chris Wooding, Michael Swanwick, Mary Gentle, Paul di Filippo, Jeff VanderMeer, and many others, are all producing works based on fantasy's radicalism. Thankfully, the alternative tradition of fantasy has never died. But given that the pleasure of fantasy is supposed to be in its limitless creativity, why not try to come up with some different themes, as well as unconventional monsters? Why not use fantasy to challenge social and aesthetic lies? Nor would I claim that it's impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in it-Michael Swanwick's superb Iron Dragon's Daughter gives the lie to that. Of course I'm not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mine-that would cut my social circle considerably. John Harrison and I could go on-the best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations. From the Surrealists through the pulps-via Mervyn Peake and Mikhael Bulgakov and Stefan Grabiński and Bruno Schulz and Michael Moorcock and M. That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader. Tolkien's clichés-elves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic rings-have spread like viruses. And there's a lot to dislike-his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. His oeuvre is massive and contagious-you can't ignore it, so don't even try.
Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. They are talking about Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. “When people dis fantasy-mainstream readers and SF readers alike-they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature.
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