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On Where Genres Come From and How to Stitch Them Together
Victor Frankenstein had it easy. He had to muck about with viscera and body parts, and though the result was an eight-foot tall, sallow-skinned monster, at least human anatomy provided him with a map to follow. Writers don’t have such … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, specfic, Writing
Tagged criticism, fantasy, Frankenstein, genre, horror, Literary Theory, science fiction, Speculative Fiction, Theory, writing
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Leaping the Chasm of Imagination: Verisimilitude, Historical Fiction, and Speculative Fiction
The borders of genre are famously porous. Devices that start in one genre will get adopted, subsumed, and then modified in another. Then the cycle starts again, with the “new” device trickling back to its original progenitor. This tendency is … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, horror, Science Fiction, writing, Writing
Tagged Arthur C. Clarke, Bram Stoker, Dhalgren, Dracula, Epistolary Novels, fantasy, Frankenstein, George Alec Effinger, Mary Shelley, Narrative Devices, Narrative Structure, Patrick O'Brian, Realistic Fiction, Rendezvous with Rama, Samuel Delaney, science fiction, Tropes, When Gravity Fails, writing, Writing Techniques
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