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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 965354" data-attributes="member: 6533">Better termsHow in the world can Midnight be considered 'low' fantasy?There's a freakin god living somewhere around the north pole making a very succesful attempt to take over the world!!!Once again, I maintain that there isn't really such a thing as low fantasy, and that from this thread it looks like a pastiche of things that are better identified on their own terms.I'd like to propose some more exact terms:Low Magic=everyone knows what that meansSword and Sorcery=the stuff of E. Howard Hunt and Edgar Rice Burroughs.  All sorcerors are high level, and all adventurers are highly tanned and run for weeks across bizarre alien landscapes pursuing princes and fighting Zanis.Romantic Fantasy= all the medieval stuff: Arthur and his knights, Theseus, certain Cantebury tales, and so forth.Gothic= varying levels of horror based fantasyFantasy= your classic literary fantasy of Jonathon Swift and Lewis CarrolMyth= nuff saidTall Tales= fantasy that occurs within the context of a magically tinged history, this category is fairly easy to define but I don't know that there aren't better terms.  Alvin Maker and Pecos Bill should fit here.X-punk= any genre can be modified by giving it a dark dystopian twist.  Thus Cyber-punk, Steam-punk, Gothic-punk, and so forth.There would be many other categories, but that's the way literature works.   It's not dualistic it's differential.  There is no if not A then B dynamic in literature, merely if not B then most likely one of 25 other categories that are also not B.</blockquote>

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