I was flipping through a book of photographs called The Faces of Fantasy at one of the local used bookstores this morning, and one thing struck me. The title is entirely deceptive. Most of the people photographed in the volume are old white people. Surely the fantasy genre isn't this monolithic?
Addendum: To clarify, the people who weren't old and white were young and white. Relatively speaking anyway--if you consider someone like Neil Gaiman young. Gaiman is old enough to have kids around my age.
My professor for one of my book publishing classes commented that he was surprised that most Science Fiction editors he had met were very conservative people. Odd.
Makes you wonder if it's representative or not. The times I've gone to starcons - those geeky sci fi conventions - it's always been a very representative mix of the society at large.
at one of the local used bookstores this morning, and one thing struck me. The title is entirely deceptive. Most of the people photographed in the volume are old white people. Surely the fantasy genre isn't this monolithic?
