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la_marquise_de_ at Women and Fantasy: tell me why 2.
Sheila Gilluly ... writes about power and its cost, about immanence, about loss and expediency, about determination and ambiguity and compromise. She writes about adults. She takes a classic fantasy trope -- the missing heir, the prophecy -- and makes it harsh and real and difficult. There are no happy endings, no sentiment, no slushiness. Her characters age and make hard choices and live with it. ... She taught me that there was space for me, that it was okay to write about women who don't always win, who have to do the painful thing, the needful thing, rather than the romantic one. I wish she'd published more books. I live in hope that one day I will meet someone who knows her, who can tell her 'thank you' from me, because I really, really want to say that.
la_marquise_de_ at Women and Fantasy: tell me why 2.Sheila Gilluly ... writes about power and its cost, about immanence, about loss and expediency, about determination and ambiguity and compromise. She writes about adults. She takes a classic fantasy trope -- the missing heir, the prophecy -- and makes it harsh and real and difficult. There are no happy endings, no sentiment, no slushiness. Her characters age and make hard choices and live with it. ... She taught me that there was space for me, that it was okay to write about women who don't always win, who have to do the painful thing, the needful thing, rather than the romantic one. I wish she'd published more books. I live in hope that one day I will meet someone who knows her, who can tell her 'thank you' from me, because I really, really want to say that.
