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Old 01-05-2011, 11:58 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz View Post
I'm sorry, but how is this any different that "Pride and Prejustice and Zombies"? It's a genre.
If you're referring to turning a realist novel into a fantasy, then I guess it isn't really any different.

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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
there's a lot of hyperbole in this thread. you'd do well to consider the foreword....
Thanks for the grounding, by the way. I glossed over the issue and brought out of it the goal of having the book more accessible to curricula that would normally bar it from being included based on particular epithets. I get that; I just don't think it's worth it.
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