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Setting - Favorite Genre?

  • Comedy - ex. Much Ado About Nothing and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe 5
  • High Fantasy - ex. Lord of the Rings and Dragons of Autumn Twilight 4
  • Historic Fantasy - ex. Mists of Avalon and Steampunk as a whole 1
  • Low Fantasy - ex. Dresden Files and Urban Fantasy as a whole 7
  • Science Fantasy - ex. Star Wars and Star Trek 5
  • Detective Fiction - ex. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Sherlock Holmes 1
  • Historical Fiction - ex. Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Last of the Mohicans 1
  • Science Fiction - ex. 1984, Foundation, and Cyberpunk as a whole 8
  • Superhero Fiction - ex. Soon I Will be Invincible and Superhero Comics 6
  • Horror 4
  • Mystery 2
  • Romance 2
  • 2017-08-25
  • —2017-08-29
  • 46 votes
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While I broadly sum up what I write as Speculative Fiction, mostly for word economy, it is an answer much like telling you I lived in the Solar System when you asked where I called home.

So which genres do you prefer to read? [Choose Any.]

For those wondering what I mean by the terms below...

Low Fantasy and High Fantasy are generally divided by whether the story happens in "our" world or another world entirely. There are other contentions, especially now in the contemporary fantasy genre, but the setting is generally a good rule of thumb.

As for Sci-Fi versus Science Fantasy, wilight Zone creator Rod Serling said it best in the open narration for S3:E25 "The Fugitive" 

It's been said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable. 

The rest are pretty simple.  I feel like Horror and Mystery need no introduction, while Superhero Fiction is pretty much just Science Fantasy, but the host of additional tropes make it a bit more specialized. Historical Fiction are stories written in a non-contemporary setting, as opposed to Literary Fiction from the past which was typically contemporary.

Comments

RoninGM

I feel like 'Low Sci-Fi' should be another category here, represented by things like The Twilight Zone or Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. Either way, characters with heart FTW (a problem a lot of high fantasy has at times).

Marky-Mark

I tend to prefer a "mostly modern day" setting (although could be set in 1950s or something similar) where an unexpected transformation curve ball comes in, which could be sci-fi, fantasy/magical, or creep into the range or horror.