Books where the Fantsy ideas and concepts take a back seat to making the reader laugh. |
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Not nececarily Fantasy in an obvious way but just simply books that will make you laugh |
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Science Fiction where the Science is mere staging for the jokes. Books that make you laugh. |
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Created in 1932 by Robert E. Howard these are the stories of Conan the Cimmerian |
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Fantasy doesn't have to be pseudo medieval Arthurian utopia - this is set in the present day. |
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First used by Bruce Bethke in 1983, this focuses on computers and their effect on society |
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Dr Who was a TV series created by the BBC. These spin off books also feature new material. |
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Huge story arcs typicaly spaning time, continents and many many volumes..... |
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To the uninitiated this is magic and broadswords.... Read on!! |
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Fantasy books inspired by original motion pictures or TV books. |
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Ancillary texts that contain no new plotting, but rather supporting material for other books, such as religious or historical texts. |
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Often melodrammatic, full of looming castles, absurd (almost Dickensian) characters and often but not inevitably vampires. |
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This flavour of fantasy where nothing matters more than the concept of fantasy itself. |
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Set in a past that is recognisable as belonging to the 'real world' but including unrealistic or fantastic elements. |
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Not directly a SF/F genre but sometimes it's hard to tell so we let the good ones through |
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The Fantasy is a way of telling glorious gushing stories in the clasical romantic mould. |
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Where it's hard to tell - wizards on spaceships or lasers on horseback. |
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To the uninitated this is aliens and spaceships, but there is a lot more to it than that. |
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Science Fiction books inspired by original motion pictures or TV books. |
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A pacey style of writing which is a thriller transposed into a futuristic setting.
Or a modern thriller, containing science at the cutting edge of today's realtiy and beyond. |
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A Subset of Science Fiction where the technology takes a back seat to the characters. |
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OK This is Aliens & Spaceships and there isn't a lot more than that. (Created By Gene Rodenbury). (Note, many Trekkies would disagree, there is a lot more to Star Trek than aliens and spaceships.) |
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It is what it says, being any books set in the "Star Wars" universe created by George Lucas in 1970 |
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