1. I'm always amazed at critics (ahem Darko Suvin cough cough) who argue science fiction is superior to fantasy. In truth, science fiction is a branch of fantasy.
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6. Fantastika encompasses the broad range of non-realist or anti-realist storytelling rooted in romance: gothic fiction, horror, fairytales, detective novels, science fiction.
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8. Bourgeois mimetic fiction is inherently conservative in that it emphasizes stability of world & limits to change. Fantastika based on hope or fear that world is unstable.
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Except that fantasy has its roots in the explained supernatural of the Radcliffean Gothics, later filtered through Mary Shelley, Hoffmann, Poe and Bulwer-Lytton, all of whom tried to ground the fantastic in reality.
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One of the most annoying trends in modern fantasy is how it treats magic as something mechanistic that can be studied and measured. In older folkloric fantasy, wizards were never the protagonists, which left magic as something mysterious and Other. Now every hero is a Jedi.
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