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Brys · 25th January 2006, 10:32 PM

There are some mild elements of fantasy - eg the descriptions of the seizures were pretty fantastical in nature, saying that the spirit was detatched from the body etc - it isn't the focus of the book, but there's some of it there, and if nothing else, it is certainly original and imaginative - isn't that what fantasy's supposed to be about?
And there's definitely an argument to be made for it being horror - psychological horror at least, as Shawn fears for his life, and what is everyday and ordinary to us is very different to someone with cerebral palsy.

25th January 2006, 10:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Brys Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 809	Re: Stuck in the Neutral by Terry Trueman There are some mild elements of fantasy - eg the descriptions of the seizures were pretty fantastical in nature, saying that the spirit was detatched from the body etc - it isn't the focus of the book, but there's some of it there, and if nothing else, it is certainly original and imaginative - isn't that what fantasy's supposed to be about? And there's definitely an argument to be made for it being horror - psychological horror at least, as Shawn fears for his life, and what is everyday and ordinary to us is very different to someone with cerebral palsy.