| 1961 M. Moorcock Putting a Tag on It in Amra May 18
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In the Epic Fantasy group the author more or less asks you to accept the background and so on as important because his characters consider it important, then take the story from there, repecting the laws and logic which are to be taken for what they are, and taken seriously.
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| 1961 M. Moorcock Putting Tag On It in Amra May 18
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In the Epic Fantasy group the author more or less asks you to accept the background and so on as important because his characters consider it important, then take the story from there, repecting the laws and logic which are to be taken for what they are, and taken seriously.
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| 1986 G. K. Wolfe Crit. Terms for Sci. Fiction & Fantasy 31
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Epic fantasy , fantasy that shares characteristics common to the epic, such as elevated style, grandly heroic figures, vast settings, and supernatural intervention—all involved in a struggle in which some central cultural value or values are at stake. Publishers have come to use the term somewhat more loosely to describe almost any multivolume fantasy work.
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| 2003 E. Bryant Confessions of an Attic Apostate in Locus Apr. 66/1
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Then there's Clive Barker, bringing a dramatist's flair first to the utterly visceral horror of Books of Blood, then to a spectrum of the dark fantastic ranging from young adult fiction to massive epic fantasy.
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