Book Club on Sidechat | When did the definition for high fantasy change?? I thought it was just anything that takes place in a completely magical world and low fantasy had elements of real life. Now it means it has to have fairies??

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When did the definition for high fantasy change?? I thought it was just anything that takes place in a completely magical world and low fantasy had elements of real life. Now it means it has to have fairies??

Anonymous 3d

I used to work at a bookstore and those are absolutely not considered high fantasies. Those people have no idea what they’re talking about, just politely correct them. Acotar is considered new adult romantasy

Anonymous 3d

Just got completely shut down by a bunch of people in a discussion when I said I typically only read high fantasies. They thought it was like acotar and a bunch of others I hadn’t heard of. Absolutely nothing wrong with reading those, but it seemed to get people really riled up. Guess I have to be even more specific and call them epics? Which they are, but also high fantasy imo

Anonymous 3d

High fantasy “has to have fairies”? That’s just blatantly wrong lmao. Your definition is correct. They don’t know what they’re talking about. High fantasy CAN have fairies, but it’s not a genre requirement by any means. In fact in the genre overall it’s probably pretty rare outside of romantasy

Anonymous 3d

I've never heard the definition that it has to have fairies, tf was saying that? 🤨 I've heard high fantasy, epic fantasy, and second-world fantasy all used to mean basically the same thing

Anonymous

#2 3d

Exactly! Tho I admit I did oversimplify a bit, so not *just* fairies but that was the gist of it. It was a discussion in my early class and I was already not happy and then I had to argue with some people lol. The books they brought up were primarily acotar, cruel prince, blood and ash, and a few others I don’t remember. A lot of booktok fantasy from what I understand