Ursula K. Le Guin
“Heroes are powerful. Before you know it, the men and women in the wild-oat patch and their kids and the skills of the makers and the thoughts of the thoughtful and the songs of the singers are all part of it, have all been pressed into service in the
Gladiator
“If he could but have ended the war single-handed, it might have been different. But he was not great enough for that. He had been a thousand men, perhaps ten thousand, but he could not be millions. He could not wrap his arms around a continent and squeeze it
The Matrix
Working on the Xeroverse novels led me to The Myth of the American Superhero and its “American monomyth” becoming a significant influence on the story and my understanding of the world. I’ve covered it previously, but in short, the American frontier fostered a heroic archetype of a loner who