Just about everything I write is speculative fiction of one variety or another. Sometimes it's science fiction, sometimes fantasy, sometimes horror. A lot of the time, the horror creeps into the SF/F stuff, no matter what I do.
I've occasionally considered venturing into something completely different, like romance, just to see if I can, but most of what interests me fits firmly on the speculative fiction side of things.
The thing is, I prefer to think of genre as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. I like fiction that takes genre conventions and turns them on their heads. I like weird stuff that's hard to classify. I like things that fit into more than one genre. What happens if you put a wizard in the middle of a technologically advanced spacefaring culture? If you set a murder mystery in a magical realm, is it a mystery novel? A fantasy novel? Something else entirely?
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Date: 2009-05-27 01:18 am (UTC)I've occasionally considered venturing into something completely different, like romance, just to see if I can, but most of what interests me fits firmly on the speculative fiction side of things.
The thing is, I prefer to think of genre as descriptive, rather than prescriptive. I like fiction that takes genre conventions and turns them on their heads. I like weird stuff that's hard to classify. I like things that fit into more than one genre. What happens if you put a wizard in the middle of a technologically advanced spacefaring culture? If you set a murder mystery in a magical realm, is it a mystery novel? A fantasy novel? Something else entirely?
Easy answers are for the weak. ^_^