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A comment on Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died. Parent comment

Re:Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died by arethuza on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:13AM (#18352279)
Things like 1984 don't really count as fantasy though (unfortunately) as they were an extrapolation of things that were already happening in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Re:Jin Yong, the 'Tolkien of Chinese literature', has died by watwut on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:35AM (#18352345)
In the same sense, high fantasy is just extrapolation of national wars and myths.
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