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High fantasy examples
Literature
Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain
Piers Anthony's Xanth
Terry Brooks' Shannara
Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
David Eddings' Belgariad/Malloreon, The Elenium/The Tamuli and The Dreamers
Steven Erikson's and Ian Cameron Esslemont's Malazan Book of the Fallen
Raymond Feist's The Riftwar Cycle
Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth
Robert Jordan's and Brandon Sanderson's The Wheel of Time
Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné series
Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere
R. A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms and The DemonWars Saga
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Margaret Weis's and Tracy Hickman's Dragonlance, Darksword and The Deathgate Cycle
Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber
List of high fantasy fiction
High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy[1] defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.[2] High fantasy is set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than the "real" or "primary" world.[2] This secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set on Earth, the primary or real world, or a rational and familiar fictional world with the inclusion of magical elements.[3][4][5][6]
^"Defining the Genre: High Fantasy". fandomania. 11 May 2011. Archived from the original on 22 March 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2016. High Fantasy is probably one of the most recognizable subgenres of Fantasy.
^ abBrian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, (p. 198), Scarecrow Press, Plymouth. 2005. ISBN 0-8108-6829-6
^Buss, Kathleen; Karnowski, Lee (2000). Reading and Writing Literary Genres. International Reading Assoc. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-87207-257-2.
^Perry, Phyllis Jean (2003). Teaching Fantasy Novels. Libraries Unlimited. p. vi. ISBN 978-1-56308-987-9.
^Gamble, Nikki; Yates, Sally (2008). Exploring Children's Literature. SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-1-4129-3013-0.
^C.W. Sullivan has a slightly more complex definition in "High Fantasy", chapter 24 of the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature by Peter Hunt and Sheila G. Bannister Ray (Routledge, 1996 and 2004), chapter 24.
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