Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones Un Lun Dun by China Meiville (or Mieville?) The Breaking of Northwall, Paul O Williams Engine Summer by John Crowley The last two are probably not YA, but are wonderful..
I've read a lot of literary/mainstream fiction this past year, although I am tiring of being left dissatisfied by the endings. I've also read more mysteries this past year than I had in awhile, although several of them would fall into the literary mystery category.
I write fantasy/horror/sf genre but have been unable to get interested in SF or fantasy, other than Naomi Novik's Temeraire book, and even that one just jumped the shark in Book 4.
Are you still at Borders? What is it about new release fantasy/SF/horror that's not catching your interest? And another question: do you follow any other book blogs (like Fantasy Book Critic or Fantasy Book Critic)?
That's my fault then; I hadn't been familiar with calling a fantasy grouping 'secondary world', and I didn't take the time to google it before relying. (I was lured by the 'other'... it covers everything!)
Now that you've prompted me, I did google SWF, and it looks like it's conglomeration of everything not set in a contemporary setting? A mashup of epic/high/historical/steampunk/futuristic?
so I picked 'general' because I read broadly and voraciously, because fantasy makes up more than half of the books I read, because I read a lot of books that are not 'urban/contemporary', and because I was lazy and didn't research SWF. :P
I'd not considered secondary world fantasy as a category either, because usually it's the categories you describe above, but yeah, it covers a lot of general fantasy: fantasy that takes place in a wholly made-up world, like LOTR. I should've used "real-world" to describe urban/contemporary, simply because that would easily mean fantasy that takes in our world, with fantastical differences.
Where that leaves steampunk, I'm not sure. I'd say it depends on the book. :)
But I don't blame you for reaching for other. Some people just don't want to be categorized!
Are you counting fairytale/folklore as fantasy? If not, your overall fantasy ties with your nonfiction! :)
I do want to ask: how does "our world" fantasy different from UF/Modern fantasy? (Though I wish I'd used "real-world" fantasy in comparison to "secondary-world" fantasy, but alas. I was riffing off of revolutionsheep) :)
THE LOVE WE SHARE WITHOUT KNOWING I categorized as "Lit Fic" because that's where it's shelved, even though it certainly has magical realist elements. Sometimes shelving is the key. ;) Of course, that doesn't make the Mieville any easier to categorize, but the idea is to pick one category per book, even though it might fit in multiples. ;)
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Un Lun Dun by China Meiville (or Mieville?)
The Breaking of Northwall, Paul O Williams
Engine Summer by John Crowley
The last two are probably not YA, but are wonderful..
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I write fantasy/horror/sf genre but have been unable to get interested in SF or fantasy, other than Naomi Novik's Temeraire book, and even that one just jumped the shark in Book 4.
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Now that you've prompted me, I did google SWF, and it looks like it's conglomeration of everything not set in a contemporary setting? A mashup of epic/high/historical/steampunk/futuristic?
so I picked 'general' because I read broadly and voraciously, because fantasy makes up more than half of the books I read, because I read a lot of books that are not 'urban/contemporary', and because I was lazy and didn't research SWF. :P
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Where that leaves steampunk, I'm not sure. I'd say it depends on the book. :)
But I don't blame you for reaching for other. Some people just don't want to be categorized!
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I do want to ask: how does "our world" fantasy different from UF/Modern fantasy? (Though I wish I'd used "real-world" fantasy in comparison to "secondary-world" fantasy, but alas. I was riffing off of revolutionsheep) :)
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