Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules.
The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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