Why Social Fantasy Why Social Fantasy? Watching the series “Manhattan,” I realized that while it featured the great names of that project, its true power lay in its social history—the lives, structures, and ordinary rhythms beneath the headlines. Epic fantasy, by contrast, has long centered on kings, queens, knights, and thieves. But what if fantasy turned its gaze to toward common folk—the workers, families, wanderers—whose choices ripple through society? Social Fantasy asks