Tor Epic Fantasy Author Jenn Lyons Admits Her A Chorus Of Dragons Is "Woke" And Says She'll Continue To Push "Poly Relationships" In Her Books
Jenn Lyons is the author of A Chorus Of Dragons, an epic fantasy series published by Tor Books, admits that her work is woke in a recent Reddit AMA and says she’ll continue to put her fetishes of polyamory into future books.
The fantasy and science fiction publishing industry has been a cesspool of extreme leftist identity politics in recent years, with it being nearly impossible to find books that don’t push evil LGBTQ+ lifestyles on its readerbase. Even Mormon authors like Brandon Sanderson caved to the mob and added promotion of homosexuality and mental disorders, pretending there are humans other than male or female in his books.
At the next tier down in fantasy fiction, authors are chosen for their ability to push propaganda in stories. Jenn Lyons is one of those writers who continually pushes the leftist ideology and gets promoted for that in her work.
For those new to her work, Jenn Lyons is an American fantasy author best known for her epic fantasy series A Chorus of Dragons, published by Tor Books. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for over 20 years and later transitioned into a career as a video game producer. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyons began her writing career focusing on science fiction and fantasy, eventually gaining recognition with her debut novel, The Ruin of Kings (2019).
The five-book Chorus of Dragons series, completed with The Discord of Gods (2022), earned her two nominations for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (2020 and 2021). She constantly talks about how her characters are “diverse,” which is always the way to keep in the mainstream awards circuit in fantasy.
The series is described by The Fantasy Inn in a review as “super gay,” where the reviewer elaborates, “A pretty wide swath of the LGBTQ+ spectrum is captured in the main POV cast alone, and if not by a POV, then by someone close to one or more of them. There are species in the world that can choose to transition at any time, and humans in the know can perform a ritual to the goddess of nature to transition as well. Some characters are out and proud, while others take time to come to a realisation about their sexuality. There’s a poly love triangle, a sweet ace couple, to name only two of the less commonly represented situations that get a good showing in this series. And don’t get me started on how gender works in Jorat – the main setting of the second book. I loved seeing this rep and different takes on gender and sexuality in an action packed epic fantasy.”
Like usual, a book series propped up by Tor Books with award nominations is more about promoting the gender ideology than telling an epic fantasy story.
Jenn Lyons confirmed in a recent Reddit AMA that she’s intentionally pushing the degeneracy. She said, “We don't see gender played with enough these days, mostly because, yes, it's apparently 'woke' to do so even though spec fic writers were doing this when I was a kid.”
She continues, “Jorat was weird. I meant for Jorat to be kind of medieval France in flavor? I've often joked about characters rebelling against me and carving out their own space (Tyentso famously did so in Book 1) but Jorat was the first and only time (so far) that I ever had an entire society do that. It wasn't Janel who insisted. It was everyone else.”
“I do remember at one point thinking: What if Wall Street fluctuations hinged on NFL game outcomes? And thus the tournament economic system was born.”
“I think poly relationships will probably keep showing up in my work. They're just too much fun,” she concludes.
In another comment she also elaborates on her doubling down on wokeness, saying, "It's been extremely important to me to put it all on the page. And yes, there has been pushback. Not from Tor, no, and not from any bookseller I've ever met (y'all are the best) but I've gotten more than a couple nasty hate letters from readers who apparently hadn't picked up on the fact that some folks might still be lingering in closets in book 1, but weren't going to stay there. Also, that I had decided to go 'woke' in The Name of All Things because of my treatment of gender in Jorat. (Never mind that the gender treatment in Jorat does not reflect any genders that exist in the real world, nor was it intended to. It wasn't an "agenda." It's called *worldbuilding*.)”
She concludes letting the reader know she’ll double down on wokeness, “It's made me much more stubborn.”
Modern fantasy is often little more than authors inserting their degenerate fetish ideas into books rather than trying to tell astounding stories of heroism. Modern fantasy from mainstream publishers has little to offer other than this style of pornography, which is why none of it stands the test of time.
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"Sorry, can't save the kingdom. Too busy navigating the relationships among my polycule and dealing with trans period cramps."
I appreciate woke authors like this. They indicate who they are and the garbage in their books. It makes it really easy to ignore anything they touch.