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Nonrealistic fiction. Much of the world's
fictional literature could be classified
under this term, but as a commercial and
literary genre fantasy started to thrive
after the success of Tolkien's Lord of the
Rings 1954-55. Earlier works by such writers
as Lord Dunsany, Hope Mirrlees, E R Eddison,
and Mervyn Peake, which are not classifiable
in fantasy subgenres such as science fiction,
horror, or ghost story, could be labelled
fantasy. Much fantasy is pseudomedieval in
subject matter and tone. Modern works include
Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, Stephen
Donaldson's Thomas Covenant, and, in the more
urban tradition, John Crowley's Little Big,
Michael Moorcock's Gloriana, and Gene Wolfe's
Free, Live Free. Such books largely overlap
in content with the magic realism of writers
such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Angela
Carter, and Isabel Allende. Well-known US
fantasy authors include Thomas Pynchon (as,
for example, in V), and Ray Bradbury, whose
works are often in the science fiction genre.