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Old 13th January 2012, 07:41 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Re: Low Fantasy

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Originally Posted by I, Brian View Post
I'm under the impression there's a subgenre called "low fantasy" where you have your classic ancient/mediaeval-style world, but the use of magic is very limited - as opposed to "high fantasy" where magic drives everything.

Man, and I was hoping for some kind of Tolkien-meets-Bukowski kind of thing.

Going by your definition, have you checked out Iain M. Banks' Inversions. Absolutely no magic in that one. Sort of. But the 'magic' isn't really magic...
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