“When Lord of the Rings came out in paperback in America it was our generation’s Harry Potter.” “When I was a kid, fantasy didn’t exist in anything except literature,” says Feist. But it’s harder to discern why audiences were ready to hear these kinds of stories. It’s easy to point to causes after the fact – say the success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, or the popularity of Harry Potter. Some time during his 36-year career, the public’s attitude towards the fantasy genre underwent a colossal shift.
When he started writing, his books were niche, embraced by a small but enthusiastic community. “And unless you’re blindly lucky, you can’t anticipate one.”Īs one of the world’s most successful fantasy fiction authors, Feist finds himself in a strange position. “You can’t chase a trend,” says Raymond E Feist.
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