/lit/ - Literature

>>10842515
>>10842527
Yeah, but why doesn't that happen as much in sci-fi?

To contrast, I'll write short summaries of Goodreads blurbs of the first four books in the OP's selected recommendations charts. I have not read any of these. I'll try to be fair and unbiased. I omitted Shadow of the Torturer because it's sci-fan, I hope that's not unfair.

fantasy:

>an Earth teenager is transported into a magical world with 7 levels of reality. he is transformed into a man but is still a boy on the inside. he must go on an epic quest to find a sword from a dragon; on his way he will encounter elves, wizards and dragons, as well as other challenges and dangers.
>the capital city of a small country is at the confluence of two rivers. one of the rivers flows from Fairyland, and some centuries earlier the people of the country liked fairies and ate fairy fruit. but then the benevolent Duke was banished and fairies and fairy fruit were banned. now, the mayor of the city's sun is rumored to have eaten fairy fruit, so the mayor must uncover the city's old mysteries to save him.
>the greatest sorcerer in the land was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. in his lust for power and knowledge, he unleashed an evil upon the world. this is the story of how he mastered spells, tamed a dragon and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
>the first year in the life of the heir to an ancient castle. doom and foreboding, sterile rituals. the villain exploits the aristocracy for his own profit.

sci-fi:

>when a man goes to a planet to study its ocean, he finds a painful repressed memory embodied in a phantom that looks like his long-dead lover. others on the planet are haunted by similar manifestations of their repressed memories. is the ocean creating these creatures and why? the scientists must look inward.
>in a recovering post-apocalyptic world, a group of Christian monks rediscover old world science through the venerated writings of a man they consider a saint
>an epic poem about a luxury space cruiser fleeing an uninhabitable Earth. due to a malfunction they can't land on Mars but instead are knocked into deep space.
>in post-apocalyptic Russia, a man transcribes old books and presents them as the words of the new leader. he is glad that he isn't a hideous mutant forced to pull a harness. he's glad he has mice to eat and can escape the agents who repress free-thinking. a legendary beast screeches in the faraway wilderness.

Now let me be super clear: I am NOT saying that the last four are better books than the first four - again, have not read any of them. But they SOUND a great deal more interesting, at least to me; I want to read them simply based on the premise.
Seems like high fantasy should be more like this, given that anything is possible with magic and a constructed world. So why isn't it?

>>10842649
Isn't that set on Earth?