Did the War on Terror lead toGame of Thronesand Joe Abercrombie?
Why has fantasy gotten so gritty and red ? Why are we so obsessed with Game of Thrones and Christian Bible sagas about severed limbs and dirty spate , alternatively of larger-than-life quests involving elves and singing swords and Ultimate Evil ? Writer David Chandler shares afascinating possibility over at SFSignal . In the 1980s , repulsion movies shifted by from stylized , pretty sanitized panic towards full - blown panel and intense fierceness — and to some extent , this may have been a reaction to the Vietnam warfare ....