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In literature, fantasy is a form of fiction, usually novels or short stories, though fantasy role-playing games comic books and movies are also popular.
In its broadest sense, "Fantasy Fiction" covers an immense number of works by many authors, from ancient myths and legends, to some recent works embraced by mainstream literary audiences (such as Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel American Gods) and much in-between.
Perhaps the most common sub-genres of fantasy--or at least most commonly associated with the term "Fantasy"--are sword and sorcery and high fantasy, two closely related forms that typically describe tales featuring magic, brave knights, damsels in distress, and/or questQuests are a plot device frequently found in fiction, especially in fantasy fiction and in role-playing games. A sterotypical quest in a role-playing game will announce that the heroes must assemble some artifact, which unfortunately for them has been bros, set in a world or worlds quite different from modern-day EarthEarth also known as the Earth or Terra is the planet on which we live, the third planet outward from the Sun. It is the largest of the solar system's terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harbouring life. The pla and usually inhabited by mythical creaturesA legendary creature is a mythical or fantastic creature (often known as "fabulous creatures" in historical literature). Some such as the dragon, the griffin or the unicorn have their origin in traditional myth and have at one time been believed to be rea such as dragonSaint George versus the dragon Gustave Moreau, c. This small one has the look of a griffin or a wyvern. In European mythology, a dragon is a serpent-like legendary creature. The Latin word draco as in the constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek dras and unicornThis article is about the mythical creature. For the constellation of the Unicorn, see Monoceros. The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. In even the earliest references he is fierce yet good, ss. Works by J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard ( January 22, 1906 June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. He was born in Peaster, Texas, the son of Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard and Hester J, Fritz Leiber and others are sometimes classified as either Sword and Sorcery or High Fantasy.
There is no universally accepted definition of "Fantasy Fiction," and furthermore, the characteristics of the form and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subject of debate among some fans and writers.
A critical characteristic is that the world feature some difference from Earth that is not a result of science or technology, but rather the result of magic or other anomalous phenomena. But, again, definitions and opinions on the proper classification differ.
As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements of the fantastic, of making radical departures from reality or radical speculations about what reality might be like, or might have been like. Some writers and critics prefer the term Speculative fiction due to the frequent crossover from one genre to another.
Further blurring the definition, some suggest there is a distinction between "Fantasy" proper as a genre, and "the fantastic," the latter being a fantasy-like element in other fiction.
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