The San Francisco Chronicle has an article on FBH complete with SRD quotes.

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c ... DCGPN1.DTL

Let me just back up this dump truck full of stones...

Personally, I stopped reading SRD because I disliked Mordant's Need. I could not have been more excited about the books' coming out, I bought them both in hardcover. I finished and struggled for years before realizing that they just didn't appeal to me. Zenslinger's description of his post-Covenant...

First of all, the Covenant books were extremely popular in those days. Wildly popular. Second, say what you want about LOTR, but it certainly takes a lot more patience to read than Covenant! Long descriptions of traveling, long songs about things tangentially related to the book. I don't want to sto...

Zenslinger, Murrin, Condign, and Jerico all point out essentially that expecting the Land to be as fully realized as the real world just doesn’t make sense. It’s a stage set, and naturally if you start peeling away the scenery, you have no one to blame but yourself if you catch a glimpse of the pro...

I can certainly buy the notion that the Land hasn't industrialized and I think SRD's answer works as far as that is concerned. But in terms of social evolution, the issue is much larger than that. The fact is, SRD is not that interested in this issue. I see very little real change in the people of t...

In the first link, here's a longish but relevant part. Intelligently reasoned, but could still be seen as an apology for censorship. This interview was about 1996. In 1995 in a talk he gave to a Mormon audience about Mormon aesthetics, he claimed that he was censored (i.e. his publisher wanted to dr...

Anyone know what SRD's deal with Orson Scott Card is? He reacted against him in a question I asked in the GI. Then someone more recently asked if SRD liked him and he said that OSC has been involved in censorship. Does anyone know exactly what he's referring to? OSC is a Mormon and has conservative ...

I want to go be an expert for them but I'm not sure I can get through all the episodes... quite a lot of watching there.

What does he mean by "in a Platonic sense" here? The word can have a lot of meanings. Does it have something to do with Plato's allegory of the cave (quick review of it here:
faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/cave.htm)

It was a good question and answer indeed.

I had a lot of respect for the way he answered my question about the definition of fantasy as well.

Wow, W.B., that's quite a resource! Thanks very much.

If this thread is being maintained, let's beef it up a bit. It's a great start, but it would be nice if we could get a majority of the words in there so that people can print it and keep it there while they read instead of trying to find access to a dictionary that actually has entries for these wor...

I think the Haruchai could have what you might call a pan-Asiatic look that could even include Native American features. Just not too extreme -- I think you could put Chow Yun Fat, Wes Studi and some European actors together and if you made them up to have similar skin-tones, they'd look right. As f...

As far as time is concerned, there seemed to be a regular ratio of time elapsed in the Land and in the real world. I can't give you quotes, but it seemed that the number of years that passed between the books of the first trilogy corresponded to the amount of time he spent in the real world. Likewis...