Fantasy
genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore
Fantasyis agenreoffiction(make believe) that shows some form ofmagicor supernatural elements.
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Often fantasy also means that the story happens in a fictional place, a world different from our own (e.g.Middle-earthorNarnia). Although the word fantasy is most often applied to low-tech worlds, it also can depict high tech worlds, overlapping withscience fiction(science fantasy). Or it is used forhistoricalfiction, if it is magical in some way.
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