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8 quotes by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Tansy Rainer Roberts in 2007 Tansy Rayner Roberts (22 May 1978, Hobart, Tasmania) is an award-winning Australian fantasy writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), and completed a PhD in Classics in 2007, both from the University of Tasmania. Roberts's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis. In 1998, Roberts won the inaugural George Turner Prize for...
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do... →

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History is more interesting than most people think.

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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for... →

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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in... →

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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction... →

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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to... →

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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama... →

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