Post by Shurik Sidorov on Feb 13, 2015 13:19:54 GMT -5
High Fantasy
High Fantasy is a sub-genre of Fantasy that does not take place in our “real” world but in a fictional “secondary” world created by the author. A secondary world is created for the story and is filled with the creatures and characters of legend. High Fantasy is also known for the Epic stature of its characters, themes, and plots. These stories are often serious in tone and often deal with a grand struggle against supernatural evil forces. The story is often written from the viewpoint of one hero who starts as a child, rapidly matures, and gains immense knowledge in fighting and problem solving skills. These secondary worlds can often be entered through portals from the primary world.
Examples of High Fantasy include J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as well as Lewis’s The Line, the witch, and the Wardrobe series, and George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
Low Fantasy/Modern Fantasy
Low Fantasy, unlike High Fantasy, takes place in the real world or a fictional, but rational, real world that has the same laws as the real world. They focus more on non-rational occurrences that do not belong in the Real World. These are things that do not have causality or rationality because they should not be able to happen under the normal laws of the real world. There is less emphasis on those typical elements associated with the Fantasy genre and instead focus on maybe two or three elements of fantasy within the real world.
Examples of Low Fantasy would be games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Other examples include movies, books and TV shows like: The Borrowers, The Green Mile, The Indian in the Cupboard, I Dream of Jeannie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dragon Ball Z, and True blood. And Movies like James and the Giant Peach, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Jack.
Alternate History/Reality
Alternative History answers those question we all ask. The What if, Then What questions we think about when we look back at history and ask ourselves about what could have been. Alternate History is set in worlds where one or more historical events unfolded differently. It takes the most pivotal points of our known past and answers the question of what would have happened. Alternate reality also covers different worlds that can run parallel to our own.
Books like The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won WWII. What If is a story of a couple who can explore alternate histories through a portal-like device are examples of this. Other books include The Hunger Games and the Harry Potter Series. And games include the Fallout Series and other such games
Realistic Medieval
Welcome to the world of Kings, Nobles, Knights, and Valor. Realistic Medieval is based on the true, real life styles and mannerisms of the old, medieval world. You never turn your back on the king, peasants work for lords in the feudal system, and Knights are the personal armies of the Nobles. This is not limited to straight history, though. Tales such as King Author and Robin Hood grew from this period. So, while it is a historic retelling of the old world, there can be amazing people who sprout up through the ages and capture the attention of people, even hundreds of years later.
Examples of Realistic Medieval are things like A Knights Tale, Robin Hood (Pick one), Hamlet, Henry VIII, and many other grand stories told through the ages.
Realistic Modern
Grounded in the truth of today’s world. Realistic modern allows you to take on the life of a big somebody, the person you strive to be in the end, or take a sobering look at what it’s like to walk in the shoes of someone so torn down by life that it has broken them. Live the high life or take the low road. Hell, even take on the role of a domesticated pet. The choice is yours in this fast pace world. All the physics are the same as in the real world we live in now and all natural laws apply. There is no supernatural here, only the stories of real people. Modern can be considered from the present to no more than 30-40 years in the past.
There are too many examples to count in this Genre, so here is a list of some really good movies that serve the purpose: Philadelphia, Dead Poet’s Society, Good Morning Vietnam, Patch Adams, Sleepless in Seattle, Marley and Me, Turner and Hooch, Step Up movies, bring it on Movies, Pitch Perfect, Friends with Benefits, and many many more.
Sci-Fi
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".
Some of the main ideas of Sci-fi include: A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space (e.g. spaceflight), on other worlds, or on subterranean earth, characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots and other types of characters arising from a future human evolution. Futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers, scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for example time travel, wormholes, or faster-than-light travel or communication, New and different political or social systems, e.g. dystopian, post-scarcity, or post-apocalyptic, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation, and other universes or dimensions and travel between them. –Taken from Wikapidea
Examples of Sci-fi can be found in almost any media and include examples like: The Time Machine, Mass Effect series, Star Trek, The Matrix, and many more.
Science Fantasy
Science Fantasy takes the world of Science Fiction and the world Fantasy and blends them together to create something different. While there are many elements of science fiction involved in this genre, fantasy is also thrown in to create unique scenes and abilities not seen anywhere else. Some stories that would fit into this category would be dying earth stories, which involves the destruction of the earth by other means than the scientifically proven ways, sword and planet, which blends the old world society and weapons with modern technology. I.E. Plasma sabres, Feudalism still exists, Titanium knight armor.
Some examples of Science Fantasy include things like Sword Art Online II, the Gundam series, Final Fantasy VII and VIII, I am Legend, BioShock series, Camelot 3000, Out of the Silent Planet, And Book of the New Sun.
Horror
Horror is the O- blood donor of the literary world. Horror can take place in almost every word, on any planet, and can be connected to every genre here on this list. Horror takes on the role of terrifying your audience, whether it is through suspenseful moments, hideous creatures, or your run of the mill killer with a mask. The goal of Horror is to bring your readers to the edge of their seat, make them scream at your characters to run, or to turn around, and then jump as their worst terrors come true. Or you could be more subtle with your horror and throw in the classic bumps in the night that drive us wild with anticipation. What’s around the next corner? Death or freedom? You choose.
Horror examples are not hard to come by, but here is a list of examples: Dead Space Series, The Salem Witch Trials, Crime fictions like The Face, Devil in a Blue Dress, and others, The Crucible, Scream, The Collector, The Saw Series, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Fear Game Series, Amnesia: The Dark Decent, Bioshock, Slender man, Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstien, Dean Koontz Books, Stephen King Books, R.L. Stine Goosebumps series, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, and Braum Stroker’s Dracula.
Realistic past
See realistic Modern for basic decription.
Realistic past is any realistic setting made anywhere from 40 years to 150 years in the past. It can include other moments in history, such as pre-history and the Greek and Roman era. It is bound by all the laws and rules of the real world.
Steampunk
Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. - Wikipedia
Fantasy punk
Take your steampunk adventure up a notch and go ham decking out your dwarven mage with a bolter rifle and a mechanical arm pistol. Fantasy punk blends the world of fantasy, high or low, with the steampunk world! Have fairies with gas masks! Give your orc more piercings than an African war priest! Side-shave your elf’s head and give him or her a rifle powered by the magic of steam! The fantasy world becomes your steam powered playground in this Genre.
I got nothing for examples. Make your own.
Multiverse
Take everything you have just read and now imagine it coming to life all in one universe. Fantasy, reality, alien spacecraft, Steam punk! Blend it all together and place it all within one tangible universe. Maybe you’re a highly advanced alien race and you do not like what the steampunk people are doing, then travel your ass over there and start an intergalactic war with a people whose smallest caliber gun is .50 cal. The Universe is your oyster and the people who make it up are your pearls, maybe some sand. Create as many different worlds as you wish, or even blend them all into one world and interact on a global scale. Then send in the aliens. Or not. Or not.
High Fantasy is a sub-genre of Fantasy that does not take place in our “real” world but in a fictional “secondary” world created by the author. A secondary world is created for the story and is filled with the creatures and characters of legend. High Fantasy is also known for the Epic stature of its characters, themes, and plots. These stories are often serious in tone and often deal with a grand struggle against supernatural evil forces. The story is often written from the viewpoint of one hero who starts as a child, rapidly matures, and gains immense knowledge in fighting and problem solving skills. These secondary worlds can often be entered through portals from the primary world.
Examples of High Fantasy include J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, as well as Lewis’s The Line, the witch, and the Wardrobe series, and George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
Low Fantasy/Modern Fantasy
Low Fantasy, unlike High Fantasy, takes place in the real world or a fictional, but rational, real world that has the same laws as the real world. They focus more on non-rational occurrences that do not belong in the Real World. These are things that do not have causality or rationality because they should not be able to happen under the normal laws of the real world. There is less emphasis on those typical elements associated with the Fantasy genre and instead focus on maybe two or three elements of fantasy within the real world.
Examples of Low Fantasy would be games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Other examples include movies, books and TV shows like: The Borrowers, The Green Mile, The Indian in the Cupboard, I Dream of Jeannie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dragon Ball Z, and True blood. And Movies like James and the Giant Peach, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Jack.
Alternate History/Reality
Alternative History answers those question we all ask. The What if, Then What questions we think about when we look back at history and ask ourselves about what could have been. Alternate History is set in worlds where one or more historical events unfolded differently. It takes the most pivotal points of our known past and answers the question of what would have happened. Alternate reality also covers different worlds that can run parallel to our own.
Books like The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won WWII. What If is a story of a couple who can explore alternate histories through a portal-like device are examples of this. Other books include The Hunger Games and the Harry Potter Series. And games include the Fallout Series and other such games
Realistic Medieval
Welcome to the world of Kings, Nobles, Knights, and Valor. Realistic Medieval is based on the true, real life styles and mannerisms of the old, medieval world. You never turn your back on the king, peasants work for lords in the feudal system, and Knights are the personal armies of the Nobles. This is not limited to straight history, though. Tales such as King Author and Robin Hood grew from this period. So, while it is a historic retelling of the old world, there can be amazing people who sprout up through the ages and capture the attention of people, even hundreds of years later.
Examples of Realistic Medieval are things like A Knights Tale, Robin Hood (Pick one), Hamlet, Henry VIII, and many other grand stories told through the ages.
Realistic Modern
Grounded in the truth of today’s world. Realistic modern allows you to take on the life of a big somebody, the person you strive to be in the end, or take a sobering look at what it’s like to walk in the shoes of someone so torn down by life that it has broken them. Live the high life or take the low road. Hell, even take on the role of a domesticated pet. The choice is yours in this fast pace world. All the physics are the same as in the real world we live in now and all natural laws apply. There is no supernatural here, only the stories of real people. Modern can be considered from the present to no more than 30-40 years in the past.
There are too many examples to count in this Genre, so here is a list of some really good movies that serve the purpose: Philadelphia, Dead Poet’s Society, Good Morning Vietnam, Patch Adams, Sleepless in Seattle, Marley and Me, Turner and Hooch, Step Up movies, bring it on Movies, Pitch Perfect, Friends with Benefits, and many many more.
Sci-Fi
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".
Some of the main ideas of Sci-fi include: A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space (e.g. spaceflight), on other worlds, or on subterranean earth, characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots and other types of characters arising from a future human evolution. Futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers, scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for example time travel, wormholes, or faster-than-light travel or communication, New and different political or social systems, e.g. dystopian, post-scarcity, or post-apocalyptic, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation, and other universes or dimensions and travel between them. –Taken from Wikapidea
Examples of Sci-fi can be found in almost any media and include examples like: The Time Machine, Mass Effect series, Star Trek, The Matrix, and many more.
Science Fantasy
Science Fantasy takes the world of Science Fiction and the world Fantasy and blends them together to create something different. While there are many elements of science fiction involved in this genre, fantasy is also thrown in to create unique scenes and abilities not seen anywhere else. Some stories that would fit into this category would be dying earth stories, which involves the destruction of the earth by other means than the scientifically proven ways, sword and planet, which blends the old world society and weapons with modern technology. I.E. Plasma sabres, Feudalism still exists, Titanium knight armor.
Some examples of Science Fantasy include things like Sword Art Online II, the Gundam series, Final Fantasy VII and VIII, I am Legend, BioShock series, Camelot 3000, Out of the Silent Planet, And Book of the New Sun.
Horror
Horror is the O- blood donor of the literary world. Horror can take place in almost every word, on any planet, and can be connected to every genre here on this list. Horror takes on the role of terrifying your audience, whether it is through suspenseful moments, hideous creatures, or your run of the mill killer with a mask. The goal of Horror is to bring your readers to the edge of their seat, make them scream at your characters to run, or to turn around, and then jump as their worst terrors come true. Or you could be more subtle with your horror and throw in the classic bumps in the night that drive us wild with anticipation. What’s around the next corner? Death or freedom? You choose.
Horror examples are not hard to come by, but here is a list of examples: Dead Space Series, The Salem Witch Trials, Crime fictions like The Face, Devil in a Blue Dress, and others, The Crucible, Scream, The Collector, The Saw Series, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Fear Game Series, Amnesia: The Dark Decent, Bioshock, Slender man, Dr. Jackal and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstien, Dean Koontz Books, Stephen King Books, R.L. Stine Goosebumps series, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, and Braum Stroker’s Dracula.
Realistic past
See realistic Modern for basic decription.
Realistic past is any realistic setting made anywhere from 40 years to 150 years in the past. It can include other moments in history, such as pre-history and the Greek and Roman era. It is bound by all the laws and rules of the real world.
Steampunk
Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk perhaps most recognisably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. - Wikipedia
Fantasy punk
Take your steampunk adventure up a notch and go ham decking out your dwarven mage with a bolter rifle and a mechanical arm pistol. Fantasy punk blends the world of fantasy, high or low, with the steampunk world! Have fairies with gas masks! Give your orc more piercings than an African war priest! Side-shave your elf’s head and give him or her a rifle powered by the magic of steam! The fantasy world becomes your steam powered playground in this Genre.
I got nothing for examples. Make your own.
Multiverse
Take everything you have just read and now imagine it coming to life all in one universe. Fantasy, reality, alien spacecraft, Steam punk! Blend it all together and place it all within one tangible universe. Maybe you’re a highly advanced alien race and you do not like what the steampunk people are doing, then travel your ass over there and start an intergalactic war with a people whose smallest caliber gun is .50 cal. The Universe is your oyster and the people who make it up are your pearls, maybe some sand. Create as many different worlds as you wish, or even blend them all into one world and interact on a global scale. Then send in the aliens. Or not. Or not.
