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Originally Posted by babyd
I completely agree, but I have come across many who call it humour or even fiction.........I guess they don't wish to be tarred with the fantasy fan brush, but me, I love it LOL
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Discworld is certainly humour, and it had
better be fiction.
But I think I can see people not identifying it as fantasy, if they use a restrictive definition. Pratchett is an enormous best seller in the UK, for example, and some folks might read Discworld who wouldn't read any
other fantasy. They might just see it as a satirical take on society and mores, which it also is.
Along those lines, I had a friend years back who read a lot of SF, but
didn't like fantasy. I lent him a copy of the late John Bellairs' _The Face In the Frost_. He was a huge baseball fan, and when he got to the bit where the wizard's incantation included "S is for Smead Jolley, the only major league player ever to make four errors off of a single batted ball..." he said "Omigod!
Smead Jolley! You don't
know..." and was hooked.
Afterward, he said "I still don't like fantasy. But I like John Bellairs!"
A similar dynamic may be at work.
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Dennis