Apropos nothing, I've always been confused/amused that David Gemmell, after whom the Gemmell Award is named, is held up by so many as the apex of manly, non-SJW bullshit sword-and-sorcery writing, because, like... did these guys ever actually READ Gemmell?
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His female characters had agency and sexual autonomy. There were married women who bantered happily (and sometimes unhappily) with each other about their husbands' failings. There were sex workers who weren't demonised or othered, but empathised with in the text.
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There were stories about how war scars the landscape forever, and a recurring theme of war and violence taking more from the world - magically, spiritually and culturally - than good people could hope to replenish with the same ease.
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There were multiple books about imperialism; about characters from contextually marginalised cultures struggling to preserve their identities and traditions in the face of oppression, who went inside the institutions of their enemies despite this to learn how to beat them.
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At lot of those people probably only ever read Legend and took the wrong message from it.
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