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Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

Probably if someone's won a World Fantasy Award, they're not exactly below the radar. But I don't want to fight about it, I was just surprised anyone would consider her obscure.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think the World Fantasy Award is necessarily a good metric because it's really a pretty long way outside of "mainstream" fantasy. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing - I think it's a really good, meaningful award because of it - but I don't think that it speaks to broad popularity and I don't think that it's an award that confers a lot of visibility, outside of its own circle.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

SA but also, more generally, I think it's better to just post authors and not worry about exactly whether they count as "obscure" or not

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

Then the thread becomes a "writers you love" thread, which is significantly different than what the OP might've intended.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

I hope people would use their own best judgment and things would work themselves out.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

That circle being "readers of fantasy", though. I guess you could argue that Manet is an obscure artist who's only known within his own circle if you define that circle as "people who know anything about art", but...

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

Well, alright, if your feeling is that the WFA winners are generally representative of the tastes of mainstream fantasy readers, I can't really prove you wrong, but it really hasn't been my experience.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. There are some pretty big names on the list of WFA winners, including George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Lois McMaster Bujold, Stephen King...

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

But that's not really the relevant question for what we're talking about, is it? Those people are popular, well-known authors who also happened to win a World Fantasy Award.

The more relevant question - I think - is on the other end, how well-known Angela Slatter, or Anna Smaill, or Sean Stewart, or Sofia Samatar are. And whether or not you would call those writers "obscure", there's definitely a significant difference between any of them, and any of the writers you listed.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think Patricia McKillip's fame and career is on the same level as the writers you listed?

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

No, of course not.

Listen, if you want to say that McKillip isn't obscure, fine - I think it's a subjective thing to a certain extent, regardless. I just don't think having won a World Fantasy Award really proves it one way or the other.

Re: Obscure Writers You Love

[(Anonymous)]

I admit, I was being a little flippant when I mentioned the World Fantasy Award. I don't think that's the only metric by which one can judge who is and isn't obscure. But I don't think Patricia McKillip is an obscure author.