Sarah J. Maas has the number one book in the country right now and romantasy is completely taking over the bestseller charts. We’re talking dragon-riding wish fulfillment and emotionally dependent heroines outselling everything else in fiction — and publishers can’t print it fast enough. The question is whether this is a sustainable genre wave or a bubble that crowds out serious speculative fiction. Jon makes the case that romantasy’s dominance is a symptom of exactly what’s wrong with modern publishing — and what it’s replacing.

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