Yes

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  by James Coplin

  Created on: October 18, 2009   Last Updated: October 20, 2009

  Asking whether a genre has gone stagnant is a lot like asking how deep the river is. The answer will

• 2 of 19

  by Beth Maisano

  Created on: April 20, 2009

  Dragons, swords, and magical lands have been the highlight of fiction in the twenty-first century. Children,

• 3 of 19

  by Jason Blizzard

  Created on: November 11, 2010

  The question of whether or not the fantasy genre has become stagnant can, like all questions, be dissected

• 4 of 19

  by Michael Fassbender

  Created on: September 09, 2008

  The contemporary fantasy scene is not particularly inspiring. More than anything else, this is because

• 5 of 19

  by Jane Rutherford

  Created on: July 20, 2008

  If you take a look at the most popular fantasy books nowadays you'll see they have a lot in common with

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  by Frederick Martin-Del-Campo

  Created on: December 22, 2009

  The Fantasy genre has become stagnant, stale, and utterly soporific. It is a telling sign that a genre's

• 7 of 19

  by Karl Luedecke

  Created on: May 04, 2008

  Yes, fantasy has reached a point of stagnancy because of the general social accceptance of science fiction

• 8 of 19

  by Canaan W.E.J. Robinson

  Created on: October 24, 2009

  Fantasy has Reality TV writers to thank for it's stagnation. It seems the commercial nations have become

• 9 of 19

  by Michael Kellichner

  Created on: April 30, 2009   Last Updated: May 01, 2009

  The fantasy genre used to bring to mind names like J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, along with such series

• 10 of 19

  by Nathaniel Whitley

  Created on: March 28, 2008

  I love walking down the endless isles of book stores and libraries, engulfed in silence and the smell

• 11 of 19

  by Michael Greaney

  Created on: February 19, 2008

  One of the more frustrating activities in which I waste time is to go to Borders and Barnes and Noble

• 12 of 19

  by Nigel Pyne

  Created on: February 19, 2008

  This debate was raging ten years ago when I pretty much gave up reading fantasy altogether. It's a bad

• 13 of 19

  by Michael Patrick

  Created on: October 26, 2008

  After a while I find myself bored with another tale of apocalyptic struggle fought with swords and arrows

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  by Nicholas Cockayne

  Created on: January 23, 2008   Last Updated: November 19, 2010

  Sadly I would have to answer, yes.

  Firstly, I have to say that I am a lifelong fan of the fantasy genre.

• 15 of 19

  by Puck Good

  Created on: July 29, 2008

  As much as it hurts me to say it, I think that the fantasy genre has become stagnant - temporarily.

• 16 of 19

  by Te Ora

  Created on: February 26, 2008

  Behold! Fantasy has become the new reality.Where can't you go that someones fantasy doesn't show itself

• 17 of 19

  by G.N. Jacobs

  Created on: March 13, 2008   Last Updated: December 03, 2010

  Let's shake the Magic Eight ball for this answer: signs point to YES!

  The key indicator is that no one

• 18 of 19

  by Shannon Lisa

  Created on: January 25, 2008

  I don't even know anymore. Obviously it also depends on your own definition of 'fantasy'...but not really.

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  by Dave Simmons

  Created on: January 25, 2008   Last Updated: December 14, 2009

  For the most part, I would have to agree with the title of this debate: Fantasy works have, over the

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