Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting...

Action fiction is a genre in literature that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide...

definition of romance fiction. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, Critic Don D'Ammassa defines the genre as follows: ..  An adventure...

Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, high literature, artistic literature, and sometimes just literature, are labels...

provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science...

from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined...

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...

addition, genres have associated film scoring conventions, such as lush string orchestras for romantic melodramas or electronic music for science fiction films...

places, while the umbrella genre of realistic fiction is characterized by a greater degree. For instance, speculative fiction may depict an entirely imaginary...

crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has...

an overall predictable form. A literary genre may fall under either one of two categories: (a) a work of fiction, involving non-factual descriptions and...

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by...

literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally...

Speculative fiction (also known as the fantastic, the fantastical, and as fantastika in Slavic countries) is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses...

" We and Brave New World are "the great defining texts of the genre of dystopian fiction, both in [the] vividness of their engagement with real-world social...

ubiquitous to the genre. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as historical fiction and science fiction, but the boundaries...

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction which involves themes of the supernatural, magic, and imaginary worlds and creatures. Its roots are in oral traditions...

The slipstream genre is a term denoting forms of speculative fiction that blends together science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction or do not remain...

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological...

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within...

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized...

more genres", which may combine elements of more than one genre and/or which may "cut across categories such as fact and fiction". Some such sub-genres have...

popular fiction, which is especially divided by genres, genre fiction is the more usual term. In literature, genre has been known as an intangible taxonomy....

stories fall under both genres simultaneously (for instance, the James Bond series can be classified as both). Military fiction: A story about a war or...

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...

A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. This is independent...

that genre. Genre fiction is storytelling driven by plot, as opposed to literary fiction, which focuses more on theme and character. Genre fiction, or...

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California...

television by the 1950s. Pulp magazines often contained a wide variety of genre fiction, including, but not limited to: adventure aviation detective/mystery...

drew on the classic interests of the genre. From these, the Gothic genre per se gave way to modern horror fiction, regarded by some literary critics as...