Author Topic: Cross-genre  (Read 3719 times)

Praxis

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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.



Zathras

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Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 08:20:02 PM
Shadowrun



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Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 09:59:16 PM
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ehhh, i didnt like it.

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?


Russell Nash

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Reply #3 on: July 11, 2009, 10:22:03 PM
Shadowrun
ehhh, i didnt like it.
And if he didn't like it, I didn't like it.



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Reply #4 on: July 11, 2009, 11:12:55 PM
*googles Shadowrun*



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Reply #5 on: July 11, 2009, 11:29:06 PM
The Caverns of Socrates 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.
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