Fantasy is not a plot element

[barbarienne]

I have a bone to pick with my buddy Harry Connolly's post here.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what he means by "What unifies the books in the fantasy genre? A plot element." At first blush I read that as "Fantasy is a story with a maguffin," but I know Harry's not that dumb (not least because his fab new fantasy series The Great Way isn't about a

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[green_knight]

FWIW, I don't get it either. I feel that speculative fiction is about the what-if: about asking what would follow from any one thought experiment, and following through on that.