Hi, Laurie.

--- Laurie Campbell  wrote:

> In most fantasy there's really nothing risked. There's no struggle,
> there's never any feeling that what happens is real, or matters. 
> The good guys *will* win, none of the major characters will die, 
> and when the story is
> done, it's done. No loose ends, no wondering about what happened
> after the story, no sense it will go on without you or ever 
> existed before you.

Huh?  Yo no comprendre, Senora.  Most fantasy is left open-ended
because none of the good guys die.  Their lives do go on.

Now, Moorcock's fantasy is just the opposite of the first half of
your statement, and conforms to the second half, because his main
characters do struggle and he does kill them off his when their story
is finished.  Elric and his Champion Eternal, for instance.

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