It was just something that sort of popped into my head and I put it online and I didn’t really think about it. “Initially it was actually kind of a joke post on Tumblr. I started our fascinating conversation by asking her to tell me what hopepunk means, and how the term came about: Are you ‘hopepunk’? You’re about to find out. Fantasy and sci-fi is a world rich in different genres, but as soon as I read how she described what the term meant to her, I realised she had important things to contribute to our ongoing discussion about imagination, in particular to the question of how our storytelling can help to bring to life in the here and now the kind of future we want to create. The quote captures the essence of an idea, a genre, which she coined, called ‘ hopepunk’. These are the words of fantasy author Alexandra Rowland, whose novel ‘A Conspiracy of Truths’ was published late last year. “It’s about how the first step to slaying a dragon is for one person to say, probably drunk in a bar somewhere, “I bet it can be done, though”. Janu/ 3 comments Alexandra Rowland on hopepunk, grimdark, story and imagination
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