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Hannah Rose Williams's avatar

You could call them both “pulp” or “penny dreadfuls,” but fantasy has a sense of wonder presupposing the supernatural, whereas science fiction has a nature of apotheosis, man trying to buck God while simultaneously becoming a god.

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Planetary Romance - The Gorean Series by John Norman.

Sword and Sorcery - David Eddings Belgariad, Wiess/Hickman Dragonlance, etc.

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