17 Facts About Genre fiction

Genre fiction, known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.

Some authors known for literary fiction have written novels under pseudonyms, while others have employed genre elements in literary fiction.

Genre fiction began as a classification system for ancient Greek literature.

Genre fiction developed from various subgenres of the novel during the nineteenth century, along with the growth of the mass-marketing of fiction in the twentieth century: this includes the gothic novel, fantasy, science fiction, adventure novel, historical romance, and the detective novel.

Critics have often regarded genre fiction as having less artistic merit than literary fiction, but this assumption has been contested after the growth of fiction that blurs these boundaries and the serious study of genre fiction within universities.

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Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

Crime fiction has multiple subgenres, including detective fiction, courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, mystery fiction, and legal thrillers.

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting.

Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap among the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction.

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.

Science Genre fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".

Negative comments about genre fiction have sparked responses from Time, Salon, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Genre fiction wrote realistic fiction about the lower middle class in novels like Kipps and The History of Mr Polly.

Genre fiction's works include the macabre mystery novel Uncle Silas 1865, and his Gothic novella Carmilla 1872, tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.

Major work of science Genre fiction, from the early 20th century, is A Voyage to Arcturus by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920.

Genre fiction was involved with the 'New Wave' of science fiction writers "part of whose aim was to invest the genre with literary merit" Similarly J G Ballard was born on 1930 and "became known in the 1960s as the most prominent of the 'New Wave' science fiction writers".

Genre fiction published mainstream novels, including the highly controversial The Wasp Factory in 1984.