Genres you've never heard of before

I never ever thought Star Trek was either cowboys in space nor Wagon Train to the stars.

Did Roddenberry ever watch Wagon Train?

 

There are ways of having access to other worlds for those who are in some of my writing, so I try in most cases to have other things instead of spaceships to carry them to those. Most of those ways have to be supernatural, more or less. Gates that form for this have a need of something explaining their possibility. And there may be artifacts with great power of teleportation.

 

I'm really going to drag the conversation down an intellectual level here, but it was only a few years ago that I appreciated the distinction between 'high fantasy' and 'low fantasy'. Once I saw it I realised I was almost always left cold by the former and longing for more of the latter. And of course low fantasy can blend into magical realism. Never to late for an education.

Its actually Command Line Interface Fiction. For e.g. see Bashcrawl.

Its pronounced 'clit-flic' isn't it?

It would be very interesting, certainly. No need to develop agriculture, perhaps.

 

Isn't that simply a subset of YA (Young Adult)?

And as long as we're making up genres here, how about pi-sci-fi -- i.e. science fiction dedicated to the creation of perfect circles (which leads to pie-sci-fi, i.e. the use of pi to create perfect pies ... which inevitably leads to the perfect pie fight)?

Or we could create TIE-fi, which is steampunk dedicated to the creation of the perfect tie (and best ways to tie it). It could also be sci-fi from the POV of TIE Fighter pilots, but I think George Lucas might clamp down on that one.

And, of course, I'm sure that someone, somewhere, has already created bi-fi. (Oscar Wilde springs to mind - no idea why...)

 

I just came across the genre of "autofiction" -- a literary genre that combines fictional elements with details from the author's life.

 

Seeeeeeriously?

 

I just checked, and apparently, autoeroticism isn't a sub-genre of erotic fiction.

 

You can do it without the asphyxiation too, you know.

I mean, so I've heard.

 

I assume this isn't an euphemism for something else. Or if it is, it's accidental.

 

Femgore-- "Recent additions to the literary subgenre some have termed “femgore” – ultraviolent body-horror by female writers"

 

Gack.

Ultragack.

 

While I've made jokes about it, I guess Amish Sci-Fi is a REAL genre of writing.

 

*enters with a heavy-duty respirator going, "Hhhhhhhhoooooooo-sssssssshhhhhh, hhhhhhhoooooooo-sssssssshhhhhh" etc.*

I find your lack of indoor toilets ... disturbing.

*I* am your plumber!

 

I'm always on the lookout for the next ~punk suffix. We've got venerable stalwarts steampunk and cyberpunk. Then there's dieselpunk and solarpunk. Cowpunk. Hopepunk. There's probably a Sovietpunk out there. I'm sure I've heard silkpunk mentioned - Silk-Road inspired low-down fiction. If you can think it, there's a punk suffix for it and a slew of authors to discover. What will be next? Jesus-punk? Toypunk? Those probably exist too.

 

Tweedpunk.

 

I am waiting for them to get to punk-punk

 

Burgerpunk. Like the rules of cricket, I'm still waiting for find out exactly what the phuck it is.

 

"Speculative Nonfiction"
"merges factual information and real-world events with elements of imagination and speculation" -The Medium

 

German town officials in the 80s.

 

I came across an agent that has "Lunchbox romances" on their list of genres.
I cant even find a definition or an example of this

 

Hmm, sounds like -- gee -- historical fiction? Or science fiction (of the hard science kind, the kind that Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke etc. used to write)? Or -- golly gosh, stop me if this sounds like a silly idea -- almost any fiction?

Sheesh. By that definition, even Oliver Twist would become speculative nonfiction. Robinson Crusoe. *thinks* Gulliver's Travels? Maybe not so much.

To put a VERY simplistic definition on it, here's a Hollywood-style example:

1. One person of either sex is sitting on a park bench, waiting for a bus, and having lunch.
2. Another person of either sex joins him/her/etc.
3. This other person also has a lunchbox.
3. No-one else is around.
4. They start talking -- "gosh, I see you also like ham sandwiches!" etc. -- find out they have similar interests, and decide to go out on a date.
5. The date gets serious, and they kiss. Fade to black.
6. The end.

(All right, in a Hollywood film, it'd have to be a man and a woman. 'Cos we can't have LGBTIQ+ people having a romantic relationship! No, no, no. That never, EVER happens!!!) #MassiveDoseOfSarcasm