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Fantasy For Our Time: Should We Be Inspired by the Masters or Subvert Them?

In this throwback episode, I officially get publicly and loudly angry about The Last Jedi. Seriously, though, paying homage to those masters who came before you is probably a better strategy than… whatever the heck the Last Jedi was… But this is more than Star Wars, people. I’m talking about the best new Sci-fi series I’ve read in a long time, the thing I WISH Star Wars would be more like. It’s called The Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

“Decent Films” review of The Last Jedi

Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series

Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun series

I get a lot of ideas for my own writing from Russian fairy tales. Today, I have a special invitation for you — I want to offer you a free copy of my essay, “A Passport to Russian Fairy Land”!

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Nicholas
Published on:
April 25, 2022

Categories: PodcastsTags: Christopher Ruocchio, epic fantasy, epic fantasy inspired by fairy tales, epic fantasy series, fairy tale podcast, fairy tales, fantasy fiction, far future fantasy, Nicholas Kotar, podcast, Russian fairy tales, slavic fairy tale podcast, star wars, Sun Eater, The Last Jedi

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