Mick Hartley

An interesting exercise in literary criticism here (via A&L Daily) – Why is there no Jewish Narnia? – or, more generally, how come Jews have contributed so little to the fantasy genre, given the large part they've played in Western literature generally? The short answer:

To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion. If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly.

To get the long answer you'll have to read the whole thing.

It could be, of course – speaking as someone who never cared for fantasy much past adolescence - that they've got better things to do.