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https://www.goodreads.com/genres/epic...this page tells us the difference between epic fantasy and high fantasy and that some people consider them the same I thought the same should apply on the urban fantasy page which is why it is in the librarian section also low fantasy takes place in the "real world" and in cities too
Genres aren't something that librarians do. It is crowd sourced by mbrs shelving the book.
Joe wrote: "so where should a post this?"As Scott said, this is not a librarian issue. You could try the Help section
https://help.goodreads.com/s/
What exactly are you asking? Is there something in the description of the genre that you think should be edited?
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Librarians can group/link genres, and add descriptions to them. (Some genre work is limited to supers.)
I think a point of confusion might be that the definition currently used on GR for "Urban Fantasy" mentions the story happens "in real-world urban settings" (which is actually incorrect) and that makes it look like one of the definitions of "Low Fantasy", which is a story where there is an intrusion of magical elements in the real-world (the other definition of Low Fantasy being the one Scott gave).--> Might make sense to update both descriptions from the Wikipedia pages for those genres? That would solve the above.
Urban Fantasy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_f...
"Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative uses supernatural elements in a 19th-century to 21st-century (or equivalent) urban society. It usually takes place in the present day (or the equivalent of the "present day")."
Low Fantasy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_fan...
"Low fantasy, or intrusion fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy fiction in which magical events intrude on an otherwise-normal world. The term thus contrasts with high fantasy stories, which take place in fictional worlds that have their own sets of rules and physical laws.
An alternative definition, common in role-playing games, rests on the story and characters being more realistic and less mythic in scope."
Sorry, I just meant that it didn't have to always be?I dunno, I was just looking for what might have confused Joe into thinking that was the same as Low Fantasy!
I ended up starting a thread on this subject herehttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
the definition of urban fantasy seems to be it is low fantasy set mostly in a particular city
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