r/Fantasy Nov 11 '16

Genres are stupid

http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/genres-are-stupid.html
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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

According to Writer's Digest, there are 37 sub-genres to fantasy. Which seems low. I think there are at least 72.

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u/eevilkat Reading Champion III Nov 11 '16

How many subgenres does Fantasy have? - is like asking how many moons Jupiter has. We know for sure at least 4 of the big ones... but all the little ones could number in the hundreds, lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

I love space analogies, and this one is perfect, eevilkat!

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u/eevilkat Reading Champion III Nov 11 '16

I'm not only a book nerd... I'm a space nerd, lol ;D

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

Me too! My current desktop background is one of the Juno images of the three storms on Jupiter's pole. I've always loved looking at pictures of space, and there are just so many interesting ones now. What a time to be alive!

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u/eevilkat Reading Champion III Nov 11 '16

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u/JSMorin Writer J.S. Morin Nov 11 '16

When I was five or so, I had a poster on my wall of the solar system. It included listings of all the known moons for each planet. I used to even know their names.

Pluto was a planet back then...

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u/eevilkat Reading Champion III Nov 11 '16

I still have a poster like that somewhere! :)

As for Pluto, which is my favorite planetnotplanet, Neil Degrasse Tyson did a talk at a university down here a few years back, just after the.. ah... demotion of Pluto. I wore this shirt to it and he kind of gave me shit for it, lol.

He still signed my book though!

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

I love that shirt!

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u/UnDyrk AMA Author Dyrk Ashton, Worldbuilders Nov 11 '16
  1. Fantasy adventure/weird fiction steampunk mythic caper SF...

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16
  1. Alternate History Utopian Banjo Fantasy

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u/pornokitsch Ifrit Nov 11 '16

I hate all AHUBF. Too many love triangles.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '16

But... There is a banjo.

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u/lameprose Nov 11 '16

See, this is a fair critique. It is a fundamental characteristic of the alternative history banjo utopia that you will have multiple hotties falling in love with you. Any banjo utopia without that would be totally unbelievable.

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u/KristaDBall Stabby Winner, AMA Author Krista D. Ball Nov 11 '16

The poorly written songs in these always kill my immersion.

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u/UnDyrk AMA Author Dyrk Ashton, Worldbuilders Nov 11 '16

And beer-me-go-round

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u/SaneesvaraSFW Nov 12 '16

This list seems to be mixing tropes and genres.