Has the fantasy genre become stagnant?

Yes

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  by Nathaniel Whitley

  I love walking down the endless isles of book stores and libraries, engulfed in silence and the smell of paper that causes my brain to swim in whimsy and nostalgia. As a child, ...read more

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  by Michael Patrick

  After a while I find myself bored with another tale of apocalyptic struggle fought with swords and arrows . . . oh, and let's not forget the itinerant magician or two. I rememb...read more

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  by Jane Rutherford

  If you take a look at the most popular fantasy books nowadays you'll see they have a lot in common with each other. A young boy with mysterious destiny, on his quest to save the...read more

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  by Nicholas Cockayne

  Sadly I would have to answer, yes. Firstly, I have to say that I am a lifelong fan of the fantasy genre. It is almost unrivalled in its ability to transport the reader to di...read more

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  by Michael Fassbender

  The contemporary fantasy scene is not particularly inspiring. More than anything else, this is because of a fundamental irony in the fantasy marketplace: fantasy exists as a ge...read more

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  by Michael Greaney

  One of the more frustrating activities in which I waste time is to go to Borders and Barnes and Noble in a fruitless effort to locate fantasy that is simply not a constant rehas...read more

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  by Karl Luedecke

  Yes, fantasy has reached a point of stagnancy because of the general social accceptance of science fiction thoughts in our society. Their has been absolutely no social hiearchy ...read more

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  by Chalke Buchannan

  Although I am a huge fan of the fantasy genre, I am compelled to answer yes' to this question. It is not that the fantasy genre has ground to a halt as such but there has indeed...read more

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  by Puck Good

  As much as it hurts me to say it, I think that the fantasy genre has become stagnant - temporarily. Most fantasy authors are trying to follow in Tolkien's footsteps. This is a t...read more

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  by Te Ora

  Behold! Fantasy has become the new reality.Where can't you go that someones fantasy doesn't show itself in some way shape or form. Billboards scream out and attack you from ever...read more

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  by G.N. Jacobs

  Let's shake the Magic Eightball for this answer: signs point to YES! The key indicator is that no one seems to write outside of the Tolkein Box. Many fantasy books involve t...read more

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  by Ellen Kudlicki

  Fantasy as a genre, is relatively new. This isn't your grandmother's fairytale. It's not even a Disney fairytale. But because of its lack of history, the genre of fantasy hasn't...read more

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  by Ahava Yardenah

  I don't even know anymore. Obviously it also depends on your own definition of 'fantasy'...but not really. Many people believe that 'fiction' is included in 'fantasy' but that i...read more

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  by Nigel Pyne

  This debate was raging ten years ago when I pretty much gave up reading fantasy altogether. It's a bad sign that here we are throwing our opinions into the ring on the same argu...read more

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  by Dave Simmons

  For the most part, I would have to agree with the title of this debate: Fantasy works have, over the last few years, become terribly stagnant. But it all depends on what you cla...read more

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  by Megan Locksley

  Yes, I believe that the fantasy genre has become stagnant. There are of course a few notable exceptions to this, but especially what I'm going to call "traditional" fantasy of ...read more

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