lewis%su-shasta@spider.UUCP (01/20/84)
John Brunner also wrote a series of short stories later collected as
The Traveler in Black that can best be characterised as fantasy. The
Traveler in Black is one of the elder gods and his function is to bring
forth order from chaos. Brunner makes "him" and the other elder gods
believeable beings one can empathize with. The stories are all ironic
fables about some very strange beings. Brunner makes you understand
how their nature and personality interact so you get to know them.
The fantasy of SF writers always has this logical neatness to it. I
guess it's because they don't just say "anything can happen" but
carefully set up a univesre with different laws, which they proceed
to follow as carefully as they can, working out the consequences in
the same way.
- Suford