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Re:Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel by swombat on Friday May 22, 2015 @02:32PM (#9590132)
Worth checking out Cory Doctorow's YA novels... they tend to be more varied than the typical fare - a good example of what you can do with the genre.

Yes, there's a "coming of age", "figuring out what you want to do with your life" common element to them - but then one might argue that many alleged adults in today's world have not actually come of age yet. Maybe we need more of this stuff in our literature.

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Re:Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel by kleer001 on Friday May 22, 2015 @03:16PM (#9590388)
Yes, if you can stand Doctorow's breast beating over EFF type themes of autonomy, government, security, etc... Which might be just your thing ;)
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Re:Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel by swombat on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:46PM (#9591247)
He's not breast-beating, just making a clear, compelling, well argued and well illustrated case...

Or, you're right, it might well be my thing :-P

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Re:Fantasy must shake off the tyranny of the mega-novel by kleer001 on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:20PM (#9591641)
Fair enough, lol. The only reason I call it breast beating is because it's such a clear departure from his very early work.
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