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For various reasons I need to divvy fantasy and SF up into five categories each. I don't actually need the ten catagories to cover everything, just be five sets that are important, that have books that are significant and interesting (and viable in the modern market to people other than a dwindling population of aged and increasingly cranky fans, thus the lack of "planetary advienture"). Anyone have better ideas than this?

I don't mind too much if they overlap (Bildungsroman, for example, can be anything but I have a specific use for that slot in mind).

Fantasy:
Epic
Sword and Sorcery
Urban Fantasy
Magic Realism
Bildungsroman


SF:
Young Adult Dystopia
New Space Opera
Garbageman Planet*
Alternate History**
Military SF


I'm leaving out some important subgenres (mystery, for example).

* Anyone have a better name for this?

** Including AH's idiot child *ick* Steampunk. And AH had webbed fingers, a bald head and a Habsburg Jaw to begin with.

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Nicholas Whyte casts his eye on the recent discussion of British Fantasy Awards, in which (to quote Cherryl Morgan) "the person who counted the final ballot was also the winner of one award, the publisher of two other winners, and the partner of the winner of two more."

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