Thread: Empty genres; or what to do with all those -punks?
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Old 05-20-2022, 10:39 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Now this is just getting absurd. A genre like hopepunk is not allowed to jump between SF & F. It's time to give it up as obviously it doesn't work.
In a world where you’ve eliminated both fantasy and science fiction as genres, replacing them with “I like it” and “I don’t like it” hopepunk can easily encompass books that were otherwise separated into fantasy and science fiction.

Honestly though there’s no reason a sub genre can’t be made up of books from different genres. The things they have in common aren’t mutually exclusive between fantasy, science fiction, horror, and so on. Further the reader can be informed on what kind of hopepunk it is which will let them avoid books they don’t like.

Or maybe hopepunk is in fact not a sub genre but a super genre standing above genres like fantasy and science fiction the way they stand above sub genres.
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