Guest Post On SF Signal: "Making Epic Fantasy New—Do We Need To?"

Recently I mentioned that I was beavering away on a guest post around "Making Epic Fantasy New"—and now that post is "live" on SF Signal.

Here's the opening salvo:

"Making Epic Fantasy  New—Do We Need To?"

At the end of last year I sat down to write a post on "making epic fantasy new." I had been seeing opinions for some time that was critical of epic, from the aspersion that the genre itself is ho-hum, to allegations that it is variously monocultural, reactionary and misogynist. I was also...