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2. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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   [3] Despite including certain magic elements, it is generally considered to be a different genre from fantasy because magical realism uses a substantial amount of realistic detail and employs magical elements to make a point about reality, while fantasy stories are often separated from reality.

3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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   In fiction, Adamant is referred to in the film Forbidden Planet (as "adamantine steel"), many books (such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Faerie Queene, Gulliver's Travels, His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, Mathilda by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and many games (such as Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy and ...

4. Talking animals in fiction - Wikipedia

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   Anthropomorphism of animals is common in the fantasy genre. [2] For example, in L. Frank Baum 's Land of Oz , creatures (such as the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger) talk. The chicken Billina gains the ability to talk when she is swept away by a storm to land near Oz, as do other animals, and Toto, as explained in a retcon , always had the ...

5. Don’t Know What to Read in November? Try These Fall Book ...

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   “I think there's so much pressure to read what are the big, important books, the big, buzzy literary books,” Freeman says. “I'm seeing more and more people, especially women, not being ...

6. Fantasy literature - Wikipedia

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   Writers of the new types of fiction such as Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding were realistic in style, and many early realistic works were critical of fantastical elements in fiction. [26] However, in the Elizabethan era in England, fantasy literature became extraordinarily popular and fueled populist and anti-authoritarian sentiment during the ...

7. Children's fantasy - Wikipedia

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   [3] [4] A market for children's fantasy was established in Britain in the 19th century, [5] leading to works such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Edith Nesbit's Five Children series; [6] the genre also developed in America, exemplified by L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [7]

8. List of fictional games - Wikipedia

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   [3] [4] Many fictional games have, however, been adapted into real games by fans or ludophiles by creating pieces and rules to fit the descriptions given in the source work. For example, unofficial versions of Fizzbin can be found in reality, and Mornington Crescent is widely played in online forums.

9. Fantasy - Wikipedia

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   Many science fiction/fantasy and anime conventions also strongly feature or cater to one or more of the several subcultures within the main subcultures, including the cosplay subculture (in which people make or wear costumes based on existing or self-created characters, sometimes also acting out skits or plays as well), the fan fiction ...