It could be the remote past or future, or simply a-historical. A secondary world - A world whose connection with our present day world ranges from nominal to non-existent. And so on.Ĭommon features of the fantasy genre include: Religiously inspired works, like the Left Behind series, can have a basic good versus evil plotline that would fit well in High Fantasy, but few would place it there. The boundary with Science Fiction is notoriously ambiguous and the boundary with horror is often no less fuzzy. While the core of the fantasy genre is clear enough, there is no succinct definition that encompasses it all. Fantasy: it's stuff with magic in it, not counting Psychic Powers, or Magic from Technology, or anything meant to frighten, or Magical Realism, or anything strongly religious, or the technology behind the magic that is Magitek, or - where did that clean-cut definition go?
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