![]() ![]() ![]() Hint: I’ve got some examples for you below.įrom sci-fi romance to cozy everything, these are the literary genre blends we need more of in our favorite bookstores and libraries. It still is, but that hasn’t stopped the discourse from popping up on Twitter now and again.īut what about genres that are supposedly polar opposites? Can you really blend sci-fi and fantasy, or romance and horror? What would a cozy horror novel even look like? During that time, we just accepted that books could be both literary and genre, and that was okay. ![]() So many so-called high-brow speculative titles came out in the 2010s that we stopped talking about the difference between genre and literary fiction for a little while. The thing I love about a well-done genre blend is how malleable it proves the borders of our literary genres to be. I’ve picked out seven to talk about here, but trust me - there are as many possibilities as you can imagine, waiting for someone to write them. ![]() There are so many overlooked genre blends we need more of on our shelves and nightstands. Genre-blending is a time-honored tradition, but we often see the same few blends - the paranormal romance, the sci-fi horror, the historical mystery - regurgitated again and again for years at a time. ![]()
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