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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I thought the opposite of grimdark was noblebright? What are the vast differences between hopepunk and noblebright?
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I'm pretty sure Noblebright was coined by author C. J. Brightley. There is even a
noblebright.org site. It seems to be associated more with indie authors -- and possibly more with clean fiction and Christian SF and fantasy. (C. J. Brightley runs a small Christian speculative fiction press.) But maybe as more people use it, the term will take on a life of its own. It's
even on Wiktionary.
Hopepunk seems to be the more accepted term within the SF and fantasy world. It was created by Rowland in 2017. And it has its
own Wikipedia thingy. Though the term came about in 2017, The 2014 novel
The Goblin Emperor is considered the hopepunk novel.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'm getting memories of the great Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Siblings and Teen & Young Adult Siblings Fiction genres on Amazon.
And again, both of those terms just describe 98% of fantasy novels, so you're just as well having no tag at all.
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I see them as sort of like categorizations -- like sword and sorcery (coined in 1961 by Fritz Leiber!), space opera (a term created in 1941!), hard SF, soft SF, science fantasy, military SF, dystopian, etc. But these terms are more about mood or tone and can even be combined with those other categories.