What is your favourite fantasy sub-genre?

[Agback]

G'day

I checked heroic, given the RP context, but if their had been a 'swashbuckling fantasy' or 'cloak and dagger fantasy' option I would have preferred that.

My favourite fantasy books include Roberta MacAvoy's Damiano. Neil Gaiman's Stardust, and Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist. So I'm hard-pressed to categorise my taste in fantasy literature, too.

Where are the options for religious fantasy? Historical fantasy? Gaelic melancholy? Modern-world fantasy?

Regards,


Agback

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

ERB

Yeah, Tarzan and the Lost Temple, not know number, feature a kind of lost race and the apes he grew up with aren't normal.

I always thought of lost race and sword and sorcery being pretty similar. Both are stories of sort of super individuals who do great things without saving the world.

ERB and Lee rock, yet there is so little of that around these days. At least on the Fantasy shelves.

But I really enjoy things from most categories. Voted mid-east as that typifies the unusual colorfullness and taste for the exotic. I most enjoy.

I suppose I could also have gone for fairy tale with the understanding that would represent Sean Stewart.

 

[Eternalknight]

G'day

I checked heroic, given the RP context, but if their had been a 'swashbuckling fantasy' or 'cloak and dagger fantasy' option I would have preferred that.

My favourite fantasy books include Roberta MacAvoy's Damiano. Neil Gaiman's Stardust, and Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist. So I'm hard-pressed to categorise my taste in fantasy literature, too.

Where are the options for religious fantasy? Historical fantasy? Gaelic melancholy? Modern-world fantasy?

Regards,


Agback

The list is taken from a book called the Encyclopedia of Fantasy

 

[Agback]

The list is taken from a book called the Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Thanks. I'll know to avoid it.

Regards,


Agback

 

[Eternalknight]

Thanks. I'll know to avoid it.

Regards,


Agback

To be honest, it actually isn't a bad book. If your in your local book store, have a look for it and just have a flick through

 

[Desdichado]

Re: Re: What is your favourite fantasy sub-genre?

Originally posted by mmadsen
This has been gnawing at me. Is Tarzan "lost race" fantasy? H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain novels are chock full of lost civilizations. Are ERB's Tarzan stories? I know the first few Tarzan novels don't introduce any lost races. I assume they later do?

It was the second Tarzan book (Return of Tarzan I think it was called?) that introduced High Priestess La and the Lost City of Opar, which played a very prominent role in the series afterwards. ERB also wrote a lot of other "lost race" stuff, his whole Venus and Barsoom stories, the Pellucidar series, etc.

For me, I prefer dark/horror fantasy, which you didn't list, perhaps combined with either Heroic Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery or Fairy Tale, depending on my mood and the campaign in question.

 

[mmadsen]

Tarzan

It was the second Tarzan book (Return of Tarzan I think it was called?) that introduced High Priestess La and the Lost City of Opar, which played a very prominent role in the series afterwards.

I could have sworn I'd read the first two Tarzan books, but your post prompted to seek out an e-text of The Return of Tarzan, and, sure enough, I hadn't read it before. The opening, by the way, is silly but fun -- very pulpy.

ERB also wrote a lot of other "lost race" stuff, his whole Venus and Barsoom stories, the Pellucidar series, etc.

Yes, definitely. And I know I read the first three or four Barsoom stories.

 

[Desdichado]

Re: Tarzan

The opening, by the way, is silly but fun -- very pulpy.

I think you summed up the entire Tarzan series right there!

 

[starkad]

I vote for the naked horseback riding fantasy.

Oh, doh this was supposed to be for a fantasy world? Damn.

Midgets in tutu's d20!

 

[Zander]

Thanks. I'll know to avoid it.

Regards,


Agback

To be honest, it actually isn't a bad book. If your in your local book store, have a look for it and just have a flick through

I agree with Eternalknight. It's actually pretty good. Check it out.

BTW I'm split between S&S and Heroic. I voted for S&S, but I suspect that like many others, I would have chosen Heroic depending on my mood. I love Conan et al and LotR.