Love my non-political fantasy series that heavily features racism, colonialism, the consequences those things have for the colonised, and their armed resistance to colonisation.
Love my non-political fantasy series that heavily features racism, colonialism, the consequences those things have for the colonised, and their armed resistance to colonisation.
This just made me realize I never bothered to learn which parts of the Soviet bloc were actually part of the USSR proper and which were merely Socialist states allied with it.
Although I stand by the broader point contrasting The Witcher with the fantasy literature that was being written in the US and western Europe at the same time, since this was contemporaneous with a bunch of uncritical monarchist-wank and race realism as well as stuff like what would be published in Heavy Metal which was chauvinist and borderline pornographic (and still, somehow, less sexist and chauvinist than the liberal mainstream pop culture of the 80s).
I definitely think the broader point is a good one.