Noisms has some interesting ideasin this post about his desire for some depth to his grimdark, and turns to Gene Wolfe and Tolkien for relief. Now, it can be argued that he’s watering down, even spoiling his grimdark by twisting the universe to actually be caring and not indifferent. And that’s true, but it sounds like Noisms finds the nihilism of grimdark to be hollow, all shadow puppets without depth or impact. And I totally get that. I don’t think his preference for a greater...
