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BOOKS
FiCTION.
FANTASY.
Fantasy literature is the body of written works that employ the motifs, themes, and stylistic approaches expected in the fantasy genre. Historically, most works of fantasy are written pieces of literature. Since the 1960s, however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other media.
Stories involving paranormal magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature.Homer's Odyssey satisfies the definition of the fantasy genre with its magic, gods, heroes, adventures and monsters. Fantasy literature as a distinct type emerged in Victorian times, with the works of writers such as Mary Shelley, William Morris and George MacDonald.
Fantasy has been distinguished from other forms of literature by its style and its freedom of expression wherein an author has the ability to use any story-telling element to strengthen the narrative; whether it be dragons, magic and castles or the lack thereof. Authors often engage in worldbuilding, constructing a framework or entire world against which the narrative plays out.
Symbolism often plays a significant role in fantasy literature, often through the use of archetypal figures inspired by earlier texts or folklore. Some argue that fantasy literature and its archetypes fulfill a function for individuals and society and the messages are continually updated for current societies
THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED FANTASY
1. C.J. Redwine - The Shadow Queen
2. Jen Williams - The Copper Promise #1
3. Den Patrick - The Boy With The Porcelain Blade
4. Rebecca Levene - Smiler's Fair
5. Stark Holborn - Nunslinger
C.J. Redwine - The Shadow Queen
Jen Williams - The Copper Promise
Stark Holborn - Nunslinger
C.J. Redwine - The Shadow Queen
FiCTION.
SCIENCE FICTION.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually eschews the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have at least a faint grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection has become tenuous or non-existent in much of science fiction.
Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a wide range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying "science fiction is what we point to when we say it", a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography: you do not know what it is, but you know it when you see it
THE CREATIVE REALM'S RECOMMENDED SCIENCE FICTION
1. Mo Daviau - Every Anxious Wave
2. John Wray - The Lost Time Accidents
3. Kal S. Davian - Branding Of A Heretic
4. Anne Riley - Pull
5. Caragh M. O'Brien - The Vault Of Dreamers
Mo Daviau - Every Anxious Wave
John Wray - The Lost Time Accidents
Caragh M. O'Brien - The Vault Of Dreamers
Mo Daviau - Every Anxious Wave