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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5607084" data-attributes="member: 18280">For what it's worth, the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (by John Clute and John Grant) defines High Fantasy asFantasies set in OTHERWOLRDS, specifically SECONDARY WORLDS, and which deal with matters affecting the destiny of those worlds.The same volume says of Low Fantasy:The introduction to The Fantastic Imagination (anth 1977) ed Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski defines HIGH FANTASY and implies LF as an antonymic description of fantasies not set in SECONDARY WORLDS, nor elevated in their literary style.  E.g., the Samella sequence by John Brosnan (1947 -    ) contains determinedly low comedy about SEX, flatulance, and lavatories throughout, but its first book, Damned and Fancy (1995), is not LF since the action occurs in a FANTASYLAND, while the sequel, <<Have Demon, Will Travel>>(1996), is LF set in LONDON.(Bold, italics, All Caps, etc., as found in said volume.)I have found this book informative, interesting, and mostly accurate.  Of course, when I read their entry on Robert E. Howard, I find factual errors (ex., they say that the process by which Conan gained his throne was never described, but was probably usurpation, whereas REH has Conan boast of strangling the old monarch on his throne, and is quite clear about how Conan became King) and some statements that make me question whether or not the stated opinions are from reading the work, or from reading some disgruntled critic of the work.  So make of it what you will.RC</blockquote>

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