But that's so like you! You must put in your oar!

[sovay]

To all of you who expressed your condolences for Nora, thank you. Her parents are setting up a scholarship fund in her name—and a lawsuit—and I will post updates on both as I have them.

Is "mythpunk" now recognized as a valid subgenre of fantasy? I dislike labels, but as an exercise in tetrapyloctomy, I am trying to determine the distinction between this coinage and Terri Windling's "mythic fiction."

Lastly for everyone who shares my love for Balliol's portrait collection, this one really is by John Singer Sargent, circa 1911:



It is my only weakness.

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Is "mythpunk" now recognized as a valid subgenre of fantasy?

Well, that's what happens when irresponsible reviewers pick up terms coined by incautious writers. ;-)

More seriously, I think it was intended more as -- and is more useful as -- a way of pointing at a group of writers than as a way of pointing at a type of fiction. I mean, based on some of yuki_onna's description you could make a case for Susanna Clarke (very rooted in folklore, careful use of language, very self-aware narrative, use of footnotes etc.), but I wouldn't want to. Certainly from the outside, it looks like the writers yuki_onna named -- yourself, herself, Theodora Goss etc -- know each other personally, at least somewhat (not to mention all being published by Prime), and I think part of her implication was that you bounce off each other somewhat.

Of course, I suppose we'll have to wait for the Wiscon panel for the definitive examination of the term ...