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  2. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...

  3. Outline of fantasy - Wikipedia

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    C.S. Lewis – wrote the Chronicles of Narnia series of novels. David Eddings – American fantasy writer, who, with his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad (1982–84), The Malloreon (1987–91), The Elenium (1989–91), The Tamuli (1992–94) and The Dreamers (2003–06).

  4. Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature - Wikipedia

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    Plot summary. Black Water is a collection of 72 short stories from various writers. [1] ... in Fantasy Review, August 1984 [2] Review by Judith Hanna (1985) ...

  5. Story generator - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Category:Fantasy short stories - Wikipedia

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    The Children of the Night (short story) Chimera (short story) The City of Skulls (short story) A Colder War; A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices; Cookie Jar (short story) The Crawling Chaos; Crouch End (short story) The Crown of Ptolemy; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) The Curse of the Monolith; The Curse of Yig

  7. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Science Fantasy or Sci-Fan, is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.[1] In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and ...

  8. Story within a story - Wikipedia

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    An example of a "bonus material" style inner story is the chapter "The Town Ho's Story" in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; that chapter tells a fully formed story of an exciting mutiny and contains many plot ideas that Melville had conceived during the early stages of writing Moby-Dick—ideas originally intended to be used later in the ...

  9. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Storr, Will (2020). The Science of Storytelling William Collins Publications ISBN 978-0-00-827697-3; The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) Persephone Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1903-155-905; Watson, Noelle, ed. (1994). Reference Guide to Short Fiction ...