What Is Gritty Fantasy

Martin s a song of ice and fire series followed in the mid 1990s.

What is gritty fantasy. You can t get much more dark and gritty than prince of thorns. Its hard work living in a pre industrial society and the writers try to reflect that. However new weird which uses the gritty aesthetic is a movement though a rather vaguely defined one.

Fantasy is also known for its many subgenres that range from mythical to modern from kid centric to frightening from gritty to otherworldly. Npr reviews a lot of fantasy literature but they aren t a fantasy site if you know what i mean. Fantasy is a good genre to indulge in.

And that s what gritty epic fantasy also known as realistic fantasy has to offer. The trend was started by glen cook s black company series in the mid 1980s. Also since i just finished malazan and loved that series i apparently like more grit than i realized.

However with the evolution of storytelling new sub genres are created to suit different people s taste. Sometimes in my opinion going too far but that is another conversation there are two. Today i want to address an issue i believe is related to the change of combat from imaginary storytelling into a modern tactical game.

Gritty stories can contain feudalism and sometimes a system of good and evil that is more rigid than in other less gritty fantasy stories. Dark fantasy is a niche genre with its own specialty. It is also pretty weird.

Speculative in nature fantasy is not tied to reality or scientific fact and can include. I ve generally found that a good way to get the non gritty stuff is to look for fantasy recs outside of genre heavy sites. Shelved 7 times as gritty fantasy avg rating 4 13 191 141 ratings published 1993 want to read saving.