The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 01 Aug 2012, 21:04 · from 2012-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:04:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire
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Watching the series, I keep mentally trying to place the technology at around 1200 to 1400 AD. But then I remember that the Wall has been there for 8000 years, yet the Starks never invaded the Holy Land to learn the proper arts of siege warfare from the Arabs. So I just have to make myself stop analyzing it.




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>I'll also speak out in favor of Martin -- he wrote what I consider to
>be THE best rock'n'roll novel of all time, THE ARMAGEDDON RAG. The
>ASOIAF books, to my mind, are brutally honest depictions of the kind
>of society that generic fantasy readers & writers like to, well,
>fantasize about.
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>The Society for Creative Anachronism likes to say that it recreates
>"the middle ages as they should have been." Martin describes a
>medieval fantasy world as it really would have been.
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