fat fantasy

Noun

 * 1) A style of the fantasy genre that consists of sprawling stories in books with several hundreds of pages.
 * 2) * 2005, Vox Day, "C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Religion in Science Fiction and Fantasy", in Shanna Caughey, Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth And Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles, BenBella Books, ISBN 1932100636, page 225.
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- It frequently embraces a form of what on the surface appears to be religion, for what is a fat fantasy trilogy without a token cleric or priest, but nearly always warps the concept into something wholly unrecognizable.


 * 1) A book in this style.
 * 2) * 2000, Jack Dann, "An Angry Celebration", in Avram Davidson, Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit, Devora Publishing, ISBN 1930143109, page 10.
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- In the face of a world going Tilt, in the face of greed, corruption, and, feh!, enough bad writing – enough mass market, interchangeable fat fantasies and denatured novels – to fill one of the terrible and dead kabalistic universes in its entirety, Avram Davidson stayed angry and wrote for the ages.