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This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension". Reversing the usual sequence of events, Barker spent decades building his elaborate, detailed world before designing the initial tabletop role-playing game.
Although this is primarily a fantasy and time travel series with elements of steampunk, there are interludes of alternate history. For example, in one scene, the characters enter a world where Spiro Agnew became the 38th US president, in another they visit a world where Gary Hart was president in the 1980s and Ronald Reagan never entered politics.
A fantasy world or fictional world is a world created for fictional media, such as literature, film or games. Typical fantasy worlds feature magical abilities. Some worlds may be a parallel world connected to Earth via magical portals or items (like Narnia); an imaginary society hidden within our earth (like the Wizarding World); a fictional Earth set in the remote past (like Middle-earth) or ...
Andrei Belyanin's Sword with No Name; Hans Bemmann's The Enchanted trilogy; K. J. Bishop's The Etched City; Elizabeth H. Boyer's World of the Alfar, Wizard's War, and Skyla series; Marion Zimmer Bradley's [6] The Mists of Avalon [4] Gillian Bradshaw's Arthurian trilogy (Hawk of May, Kingdom of Summer, In Winter's Shadow) [4]
For example, jazz is a genre of music. Fantasy is a genre of fiction, and more specifically, a genre of speculative fiction. Genre of fiction – fiction is a form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch ...
Also, contemporary fantasy is generally distinguished from horror fiction that mixes contemporary settings and fantastic elements by the overall tone, emphasizing joy or wonder rather than fear or dread. The contemporary fantasy and low fantasy genres can overlap as both are set in the real world. There are differences, however.
This category is for articles about words first found in fiction - but not for names of fictional characters that are used in other contexts, like Svengali, Don Juan or Darth Vader. Pages in category "Words originating in fiction"