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2015 G. Valentine For A Taste Of Grimdark in NPR.org 25 Jan.
Grimdark…[has] become shorthand for a subgenre of fantasy fiction that claims to trade on the psychology of those sword-toting heroes, and the dark realism behind all those kingdom politics. But there are arguments over who fits the definition…and whether the nickname is a useful genre marker or just a needle. Some…have embraced the term (his Twitter handle is @lordgrimdark). Others see it as a dismissive term for fantasy that’s dismantling tropes, a stamp unfairly applied. |