Is Epic Fantasy Currently Enjoying A Resurgence?

Over the past weeks I’ve been enjoying a few epic conversations here on the blog. Mainly this spun out of some of the observations around epic fantasy that I saw arising during the Gemmell Awards voting period, and I am interested to know what you think.

So far, the topics we’ve discussed have been:

What Makes Fantasy Epic? and

What Makes for “The New” in Epic Fantasy?

Once again, this week’s question arises out of last week’s discussion. We had got onto cycles in Fantasy and Paul Weimer alluded...