 Fantasy: May 29, 2024 Issue [#12567] |
This week: Wrath and Reward Edited by: Robert Waltz  
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More law, less justice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think the first duty of society is justice.
—Alexander Hamilton
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
—Orson Welles |
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One of the reasons for the existence of Fantasy as a genre is to imagine places, characters and situations that are different from what we have here in reality. It's right there in the name.
As we all know, life isn't fair. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to terrible people. Natural disasters affect the just and the unjust alike. The innocent get punished, and the guilty walk free. People who don't return their shopping carts to the supermarket's parking lot corral never seem to face any consequences. That sort of thing.
But, in the grand tradition of Fantasy, why not ask, "What if... the Powers that Be actively meted out rewards and punishments?"
A pickpocket might spend some time with paralyzed hands. If your neighbor's house were destroyed by a tornado and yours wasn't, then you'd know they were sinners. People who cheat at chess would be named and shamed. An employer engaging in wage theft would have their stock value tank into the toilet. Liars would get hit by lightning out of a clear blue sky. Those who commit murder would immediately perish. And so on.
Why would such a Power enact vengeance instead of simply preventing the acts in the first place? I leave that up to your fertile imagination.
What sorts of stories could one write about such a universe? Well, forgive me if I keep those details to myself for my own use. I'll just have to accept the punishment for withholding ideas.
This would, of course, require a powerful intelligence running things, some entity or entities who know what you did and had the ability to do something about it. Which might fit "Horror" more than "Fantasy," but the line between those genres is fuzzy, anyway. |
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Last time, in "Star Wars Day" , I prepared us all for May the Fourth (be with you).
Unfortunately, everyone was too busy celebrating to leave a comment.
So that's it for me for this month. See you in June! Until then,
DREAM ON!!!
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