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Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton  But then, scalem, you would be including out some of the best fantasy ever written, and still be left with the question of what to call all of the other books with fantasy elements that aren't high fantasy -- a blurry designation to begin with. You'd be orphaning a great number of books. |
I'm with you on this. Books with magic, dragons, elves, cod-mediaeval worlds, etc., are a subset of fantasy. Sometimes called high fantasy. If we only called Robert Jordan, Tolkien, Steve Erikson and the like fantasy, then what do we call Borges, Carroll, Crowley, Angela Carter...?