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Ajax Plunkett
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Has anyone here of this sub-genre called GONZO FANTASY?
 
It was mentioned to describe a book by the writer Tim Powers.
 
What are the traits and some authors of this thing called Gonzo Fantasy?
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Bill Ward
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Beats me, I'd suppose it has absurdist elements. Hunter Thompson pioneered gonzo journalism, which was a bizarre mix of the real and the absurd, I wonder if its similar?
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I'm not familiar with it either. huh.

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I've never heard the term applied to novels, but I've heard it within the context of fantasy role-playing games; it usually denotes a style of play common in the late 1970s that utilized a "kitchen sink" approach to creating a game setting that liberally drew from a wide variety of F&SF subgenres.  For example, the world might be based on medieval Europe, but will include incongruous elements such as dinosaurs, killer robots, flying sharks with laser beam eyes, and so on. 
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nightlamp said...
I've never heard the term applied to novels, but I've heard it within the context of fantasy role-playing games; it usually denotes a style of play common in the late 1970s that utilized a "kitchen sink" approach to creating a game setting. For example, the world might be based on medieval Europe, but will include incongruous elements such as dinosaurs, killer robots, flying sharks with laser beam eyes, and so on.


Interesting. But tragically muddled.

Nicholas Ian Hawkins


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"Knowledge and Dust," in Magic & Mechanica (Ricasso Press)
"Relativity," in FLASHSHOT, September 28, 2007

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