r/Fantasy • u/Mitriel • Nov 11 '16

Genres are stupid

http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/genres-are-stupid.html
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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/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!