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The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Praxis on July 11, 2009, 08:00:55 PM

Title: Cross-genre
Post by: Praxis on July 11, 2009, 08:00:55 PM

I'm starting this thread as I read one of the 'Keeping it Real' - Justina Robson - series of books recently and couldn't think whether it should be in a Podcastle thread or an Escape Pod one.
[Incidentally, I should note that I don't think the Keeping it Real or the other books in the series are the best written by any means :P but I like the mix of 'proper' magic and fantasy elements with high-tech that she uses.]

Do other people have favourite cross-genre stories?  (I'm thinking more of ones that mix extremes like fantasy and science, as something like 'horror' could fit equally well into both. and often does.)

I suppose another contender would be Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' books, since characters use science, machines equally often as 'magic' and other dusty ethereal devices.

Title: Re: Cross-genre
Post by: Zathras on July 11, 2009, 08:20:02 PM

Shadowrun

Title: Re: Cross-genre
Post by: Bdoomed on July 11, 2009, 09:59:16 PM

Quote from: Zorag on July 11, 2009, 08:20:02 PM

Shadowrun

ehhh, i didnt like it.

Title: Re: Cross-genre
Post by: Russell Nash on July 11, 2009, 10:22:03 PM

Quote from: Bdoomed on July 11, 2009, 09:59:16 PM

Quote from: Zorag on July 11, 2009, 08:20:02 PM

Shadowrun

ehhh, i didnt like it.

And if he didn't like it, I didn't like it.

Title: Re: Cross-genre
Post by: Praxis on July 11, 2009, 11:12:55 PM

*googles Shadowrun*

Title: Re: Cross-genre
Post by: lowky on July 11, 2009, 11:29:06 PM

The Caverns of Socrates (http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451454677/escapepod-20) by Dennis L. McKiernan.  Basically there is an AI and VR (set in McKiernan's Mithgar) and People get stuck in the VR when the AI gets struck by lightning.  When they finally escape they have developed the powers that their VR Characters possessed.