Pratchett anger at Rowling's rise

I love Terry Pratchett. Here he reacts to some comments from JKR in a Time Magazine interview.

In a recent interview with Time magazine, Rowling said she was "not a huge fan of fantasy" and was trying to "subvert" the genre.

The magazine also said Rowling reinvented fantasy fiction, which was previously stuck in "an idealised, romanticised, pseudofeudal world, where knights and ladies morris-dance to Greensleeves"...

...[Pratchett] also expressed surprise at Rowling's comments that she only realised Harry Potter was fantasy after the first book was published.

"I'm not the world's greatest expert," he wrote. "But I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds, jumping chocolate frogs, owl mail, magic food, ghosts, broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?"

Mwah. I can't bear it when authors (or film makers or TV show makers) try to say that their offering isn't science fiction or fantasy when it quite clearly is. Obviously the genre and the fans are so far beneath them they can't admit that they might be dipping their toes into the same pool as us. It probably has geek germs in it.

Sirius/Remus Fic Recs

24/10/05
Update of around about 30 fics and now vaguely alphabetised! Hurrah! There's also a new AU category as I realised they didn't really fit anywhere. The fact that the recs are new doesn't necessarily mean that the fics are new, just that I found them recently. And as before, the list is subjective - it's what I enjoyed at the time.

31/07/05
This is a list of Sirius/Remus fic that I have enjoyed over the past nine months or so - ever since I started bookmarking the stuff I enjoyed anyway. I guess a lot of Sirius/Remus shippers will have read most of this stuff, but there's a chance that there might be something new for you. I've not searched too hard for things - I mostly read the stuff that appears (or is recced) on my f-list. There's lots of pr0n on the list, lots of angst (this is Sirius/Remus after all!), and a surprisingly large amount of humour. And the list is definitely a subjective one - it's things that I really enjoyed reading at that point in time.

This has taken me about 5643543543 days to do. I never want to cut and paste anything ever again. If you spot any bad links or messed up coding let me know and I'll fix it. And let me know if you use this list!

Oh, I've also included some Lily/James, Sirius/Remus/James (which is all pretty much unashamed smut) and Hermione/Remus recs at the bottom because it's my list and I can. Ha!

( here be recs )