What Two Genres Would You Mash Up & What Would You Call This New Category? (5/26/24)

[Marc]

I heard a radio piece about the term "romantasy" (a blend of the romance and fantasy genres) and wondered what type of genre mashups would you all like to see? And what would you call these new blends?

[Franky]

I always thought science fiction and time travel has been interesting (speaking from personal preference). Time travel is more of a subgenre rather than a main stream one I suppose. Is it a new thing?No, not at all. But I seem to enjoy it quite a bit.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I honestly can't think of two that haven't already been combined. Maybe a Southern Gothic Space Opera? I'll have to give this some thought...

[Rose]

Well, riffing off how (some) southern Californians talk about the state (SoCal and NoCal), maybe we could have mash-up noir categories of Southern Noir (SoNoir) and Northern Noir (NoNoir)? LOL.

Caliclifi for climate fiction set in California?

Spystery for a mystery set in space?

Just being silly . . .

[Marc]

I'm thinking I might like some horror poetry... Horretry... ? Could work. Might already exist, but can't think of any I've come across.

Caliclifi has a really nice ring to it!

[Luke]

Lovecraftinautica (Master and Commander and eldritch gods, done far more for the sound than the genuine readerly interest).

[Whitney]

Marc wrote: "I'm thinking I might like some horror poetry... Horretry... ? Could work. Might already exist, but can't think of any I've come across."

It exists, Poe wrote a bunch of it :-)

Some of Goethe's stuff could definitely be considered horror poetry, as could Yeats. There's Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems and there's even a Stoker Award for best horror poetry collection if you want more contemporary examples.

[Whitney]

Aubrey wrote: "Lovecraftinautica (Master and Commander and eldritch gods, done far more for the sound than the genuine readerly interest)."

High Seas Cthulhu: Swashbuckling Adventure Meets the Mythos

As RJ said, it's hard to find ones that haven't been done.

[Sarah]

Y'all are SillyCreative! Scillative?

[Luke]

Whitney wrote: "Aubrey wrote: "Lovecraftinautica (Master and Commander and eldritch gods, done far more for the sound than the genuine readerly interest)."

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And many a chivalric romance of high medieval Europe qualifies as "romantasy". Nothing new under the sun here, just updated nomenclature for trending on TikTok.

[Marc]

Whitney, are you sure you weren’t a librarian in another life? This is not the first time I have seen you come up with multiple examples of books/authors that meet very specific or niche questions.

What would we call stories about cats written by AI to be read only by another AI?