Bureaumancy: a genre for fantastic tales of the deeply ordinary
“Why does the fantasy genre find inspiration in all things mundane? Perhaps, as Charles Stross argues, it’s because magic provides the perfect metaphor for modern technological life, in which we “might not have starships, but there’s a Palantír in every pocket” – an argument I certainly have a lot of time for. Or perhaps it’s because we’re all trapped in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare of our own making, and we’re desperate to escape it”
Perhaps because of their own deskbound lives, many novelists have been able to find the outlandish stories filed away in the drabbest corners of modern life
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