What are the tigers with a pouch for their young? There seem to be no large carnivorous marsupials. A candidate is the marsupial lion (which is also striped), but it’s been extinct for a while.
Edit: Ah, the thylacine (“Tasmanian wolf”) was also known as the Tasmanian tiger. Yay for learning!
Yes, but “striped horses” have an obvious Earthly referent, and so it was not unreasonable to suppose that marsupial tigers might too (as indeed they have).
Dragons aren’t all that less physically possible than FTL travel, and no one complains about quoting sources that use that as a plot device.
Of course, I imagine this is really about the romanticism vs. enlightenment divide in literature, but dismissing a relevant and well-written quote on genre grounds nonetheless seems a little biased.
What are the tigers with a pouch for their young? There seem to be no large carnivorous marsupials. A candidate is the marsupial lion (which is also striped), but it’s been extinct for a while.
Edit: Ah, the thylacine (“Tasmanian wolf”) was also known as the Tasmanian tiger. Yay for learning!
Thylacines, maybe.
The quote is from a fantasy book. There are dragons in it...
Yes, but “striped horses” have an obvious Earthly referent, and so it was not unreasonable to suppose that marsupial tigers might too (as indeed they have).
Yup. I don’t know if that’s what the terrible walking lizards are, or if they are that other kind of dragon of something in the same family.
Dragons aren’t all that less physically possible than FTL travel, and no one complains about quoting sources that use that as a plot device.
Of course, I imagine this is really about the romanticism vs. enlightenment divide in literature, but dismissing a relevant and well-written quote on genre grounds nonetheless seems a little biased.