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While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

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The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.

Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey

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Born: September 9, 1943 (age 81)

Bio: Thomas Alan Shippey is a British scholar of medievalism, of medieval literature, including that of Anglo-Saxon England, and of modern fantasy and science fiction. In particular he is widely considered one of the world's leading academic scholars on the works of J. R. R.

Known for:

The Road to Middle-Earth (1982)
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2000)
The Hammer and the Cross (1993)
King and Emperor (1996)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)

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