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A story generator or plot generator is a tool that generates basic narratives or plot ideas. The generator could be in the form of a computer program, a chart with multiple columns, a book composed of panels that flip independently of one another, or a set of several adjacent reels that spin independently of one another, allowing a user to select elements of a narrative plot.
Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979) (stories) Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge (1981) Tanith Lee's Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) a collection of short stories, all fairytale fantasies, many of them revisionist; Francesca Lia Block's The Rose and the Beast (1993) (stories) Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch ...
Romantic fantasy or romantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that combines fantasy and romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. [1] One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, political, and romantic. [2]
Children's fantasy novel stubs (102 P) Pages in category "Children's fantasy novels" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 566 total.
Of the authors of this period, Nesbit is commonly cited as the creator of modern children's fantasy. [8] The golden age of children's fantasy, in scholars' view, occurred in the mid-20th century when the genre was influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Land of Stories is a series of children's fiction, adventure, and fantasy books written by American author, actor, and singer Chris Colfer. The first book, The Wishing Spell , was released on July 17, 2012, with the sixth and final book published in July 2017.
A story of romantic love, esp. one which deals with love in a sentimental or idealized way; a book, film, etc., with a narrative or story of this kind. Also as mass noun: literature of this kind. Overlap is also sometimes found between the above terms, when literary romance also contains a strong love interest.
A different strain of British urban fantasy also developed, prominently in the works of Diana Wynne Jones; the authors state that Jones, along with Lewis, are the two novelists most frequently discussed in the book. They also detail a decline in children's fantasy in the late 1980s amidst a rise in grim, violent themes, owing to a "demand for ...