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farseer4 t1_jedyd6t wrote

Yes, a genre is just a collection of tropes and conventions that allow readers to find books that are similar to other books they have liked. As fashions come and go, new genres and subgenres appear. For example, within fantasy, we have relatively recent subgenres like litRPG, progression fantasy, "cozy" fantasy (like "Legends & Lattes")....

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