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more about #genres more comments → Bill-Lee: Fantasy is popular today because its always been popular. The first kind of story our stone age ancestors ever told as they huddled around the fire wa... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Maybe it has something to do with the whole "We are living in the future" idea. What William Gibson writes is more about next week than next century ... more » dirtybacon: When I think of fantasy, I think of the plot and characters that usually end up in the fantasy novels, and their usually strong sense or morality. Mos... more » BadUncle: The threat of global warming seems to be something out of Tolkein rather than Asimov, although without the convenient anthropomorphic villain to slay ... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Fantasy--in particular steampunk--as a kind of method for recreating cultural mythologies is interesting. I mean, it's been right there since Lord of... more » Mathmos: Not that I don't enjoy fantasy, but I'd tend to argue that the touchstones and metaphors helped get us into this plight - what we need is precise anal... more » TemporalSword: What drives me crazy is that neither are actually stories unto themselves. They are settings, used to tell the same types of stories as anyone else (d... more » geesejuggler: I love the principle of "I am my own sequel." I'm borrowing that from him. Honestly speaking, no one is the same person they were 5 or 10 years ago an... more » Guang: I like the idea of the "crap" section. Can we have a required "crap" label on all books that deserve it, placed prominently on the front cover? It wou... more » Pope John Peeps II: Personally I would prefer to see bookstores shelve all fiction together regardless of genre. oh is he refusing to label his "genre" books as "genre"?... more » twDarkflame: Arnt these more categories/genres then tropes? I think "Warewolfs VS Vampires" is a bit more of a trope, as it implies story, rather then just subjec... more » Ghede: _punk. Not the genres. The naming of genres _punk. Cyberpunk, sure. Steampunk, ok... dieselpunk? *frothing at the mouth* #horror more » J_Frank_Parnell: While I think zombies, vampires and post-apocolypses are all getting a bit played out, I think steampunk was stillborn as a genre. All style and no re... more » bookwench: Can't be sick of steampunk. I can never *find* any. #horror more » mordicai: None of the above? #horror more » -
#genres
Is Fantasy The New Literature Of The Future?
Whenever people remark on the fact that fantasy books are slowly eclipsing science fiction, it's viewed as a fear of the future, because fantasy is all about the past, right? Not necessarily, says one blogger. More » -
#exclusive
Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's celebrated science fiction and geeky pop culture, and his latest book Manhood For Amateurs is a love letter to fandom. So when we managed to ask him a few questions, we were excited to geek out about genres.
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#poll
Which Overused Trope Are We Sickest Of?
There's nothing scarier than deja vu: that feeling that everything we've seen before will keep coming back over and over again, until your head dissolves. Which overused trope are you most sick of: zombies, vampires, alt-universes, post-apocalyptic worlds or steampunk? More » -
#virginiawoolf
The Science Fiction Writer Who Received Fan Mail From Virginia Woolf
It's one of those literary friendships that seems unlikely on the surface, but then makes endless sense once you dig deeper: Virginia Woolf had a correspondence with Olaf Stapledon, and he inspired her to write more science fiction. More » -
#rant
How Do You Get Science Fiction To Have "Book Club Lit"?
One of the frustrating things about science fiction is that everyone's seen the year's biggest movies: Even films like Transformers 2, which most people seemed to dislike. But how many books are there that everyone you know has read?
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#books
"It Causes Me Pain To Classify My Post-Apocalyptic YA Romance As Science Fiction"
How easy is it to nail down the genre of a novel you're working on? Agent Nathan Bransford polled the readers of his blog about the genres they're writing, and it turned into a free-for-all about the terror of genres. More » -
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#rant
How Do We Get New Science Fiction Stories? Have New Nightmares
Tired of the creaky entertainment machine churning out copy-cat stories of zombies, superheroes, apocalypses and cyborgs? Then you need to conjure new dreads and fantasies in the real world, since that's where all our science fiction cliches come from. More » -
#genrepioneers
Science Fiction Books That Launched Their Own Genres
Science fiction is all about discovery and invention, but only a few books have actually created whole new genres. Here are 10 books that pioneered a new type of science-fictional story. Do you have what it takes to join them?
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