The British may have lost their empire, but their fantasy - especially YA (young adult) fantasy - is still tops, and it has been for decades. Potter and His Dark Materials are just the latest in a long line of fantasies like The Dark Is Rising, the Prydain Chronicles, The Once and Future King, and the works of Diana Wynne Jones.
The US has a tradition of YA in speculative fiction as well. But for us, it's science fiction, not fantasy: the Heinlein juvies like Space Cadet, The Star Beast, and Tunnel in the Sky; Andre Norton Murray Leinster, Isaac Asimov - they all wrote YA-SF.
I wonder why it separated out like that...
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