It seems clear that Iceland has not contributed significantly to fantasy literature or sf. We do have some pretty awesome writers, and actually Halldór Laxness who was mostly a sort of 'high brow' literary author wrote a couple of short stories, plays and at least one novel that contain strong elements of fantasy and surrealism.... currently the strongest writers seem to be writing crime stories - while this situation may be changing and possibly changing fast. Interestingly among the most successful musicians in Iceland there is a very strong fantastic tendency .... Sigurrós and then .... Björk of course.... Björk's most recent project seems to me to be a landamark - sadly I missed the concert but Biophilia seems to break new ground in the relationship between art, musicology and science and combines a great vision for how to approach music art creativity and the world .... with a restless curiosity as the introduction presented by David Attenborough has it.... Even if the content isn't fantasy or sf the weird and wonderful approach of Björk and Snibbe as he talks about it at TEDX London is deeply inspiring and magical and gives me a feeling similar to the one a remember when I went to a cinema downtown Reykjavík many many many years ago to see the Empire strike back....
In my short time as a Twitter I notice that the way people are doing art and communicating their findings and creations selling them and offering others to participate I feel that we are in the midst of something interesting and powerful and I'm thrilled to be a witness and participant ....
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