The Fantasy Genre market is a deluge of varying types of Fantasy, but the genre that is surfacing the most often is Contemporary Fantasy. The authors in Contemporary Fantasy tend to mix fantasy within a modern setting, typically hiding the characters magical attributes, having one of the main protagonists discover the ability to see outside there modern world, and tending to mix in classical mythology and fantasy within the novels.
Contemporary Fantasy has seen a rise in popular culture from such great writers as Neil Gaiman, Charles De Lint, Jim Butcher:to movies, graphic novels, and even television shows. This genre reaches out to other sub-genres within Fantasy from magical realism(Isabel Allende) to urban fantasy, and the purpose of this blog is to create a voice for this genre on the internet.
This blog will take suggestions, reviews, comments, to aid in the quest of Reader’s Advisory in libraries, and also create a space on the internet to expand these genre’s further. The next five postings will include some of the biggest names in this genre, with additional information about the authors from: links, to movies, and additional book lists.
The Fantasy Genre market is a deluge of varying types of Fantasy, but the genre that is surfacing the most often is Contemporary Fantasy. The authors in Contemporary Fantasy tend to mix fantasy within a modern setting, typically hiding the characters magical attributes, having one of the main protagonists discover the ability to see outside there modern world, and tending to mix in classical mythology and fantasy within the novels.
Contemporary Fantasy has seen a rise in popular culture from such great writers as Neil Gaiman, Charles De Lint, Jim Butcher:to movies, graphic novels, and even television shows. This genre reaches out to other sub-genres within Fantasy from magical realism(Isabel Allende) to urban fantasy, and the purpose of this blog is to create a voice for this genre on the internet.
This blog will take suggestions, reviews, comments, to aid in the quest of Reader’s Advisory in libraries, and also create a space on the internet to expand these genre’s further. The next five postings will include some of the biggest names in this genre, with additional information about the authors from: links, to movies, and additional book lists.