My Numerous Problems with Darkover Series – Part Three

Lack of Intersectionality and Gender Issues I am well aware that feminism has changed a lot during recent decades. That probably explains why in earlier Bradley books we have hippie-like described questions of free love or polyamory, and then (in The Alton Gift or inThe Children of Kings) we get supposedly emancipated, but monogamical relationships … Continue reading My Numerous Problems with Darkover Series – Part Three

My Numerous Problems with Darkover Series – Part Two

NOTE: I do not expect that every writer (or even the majority of writers) would have pro-democratic/liberal/socialist/moderately conservative worldview. I do not expect that every fantasy book would promote democratic values. But I can see that most fantasy literature is quite thoughtless, naive or conservative, when it comes to question of social classes, governing and … Continue reading My Numerous Problems with Darkover Series – Part Two