High fantasy - Takes place in an entirely fictional fantasy world. The stories are often lengthy and epic, involving multiple characters and large-scale quests where the fate of the world rests on the shoulders of the heroes., Low fantasy - Takes place in the real world, or something very like the real world, and includes magical or supernatural elements, Magical realism - Strives to paint a realistic portrait of the modern world, centering on stories that are character-driven yet include a few elements that are supernatural, magical, or otherwise unusual. In other words, "real" stories invaded by the fantastical., Urban fantasy - Tends to be set in busy real-world or present-day locations, or fantasy worlds in built-up areas like cities., Dark fantasy - Tends to focus on creating a creepy, intense atmosphere. It can feature fantastical creatures like werewolves, vampires, demons. , Grimdark - Tend to portray very bleak, very violent, very grim, and very gruesome worlds at their center and the element of hope is basically dead., Science fiction - Deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, Historical Fantasy - Blends magic with real historical events. For example, in Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" series, dragons are a part of the Napoleonic Wars.,

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