fantasy

fantasy, imaginative fiction that relies on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings). Examples include William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1954-55), T.H. White’s The Once and Future King (1958), and Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015). Science fiction can be seen as a form of fantasy,...