Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

Despite reading lots of opinions on what makes a book epic fantasy -- or perhaps because of reading lots of opinions on the subject -- I really don't know what to tell you. Many of the "experts" directly contradict each other. Sooo....I guess if you read a fantasy book and think, "Yeah, that was epic," count it. There are no epic police here.

I listened to Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, the Seamus Heaney translation from about 20 years ago.

I will choose to interpret "epic fantasy" as explained by Wikipedia, also called high fantasy.

As such, Neil Gaiman's Stardust counts -- and I gave it 5 stars, which also makes it kind of epic, right?