Finally! Someone who properly defines Science Fantasy. Thank you for that.

Time Stamps!!! 0:00 Introduction 1:16 What is Fantasy? 1:39 Arthurian Fantasy 2:49 High Fantasy (including Low Fantasy and 3:55 Epic Fantasy) 5:35 Dark Fantasy 6:48 Historical Fantasy 8:19 Military Fantasy 8:51 Mythic Fantasy 9:39 Portal Fantasy 10:56 Science Fantasy (including 11:38 Space Science Fantasy) 11:55 Steampunk 13:08 Superhero Fantasy 14:04 Sword and Sorcery 14:56 Urban Fantasy 15:47 Conclusion Very nice video!!! Can you pin my comment so it would be easier for anyone who want to see a particulat part of the video

Other popular examples of Dark Fantasy: Dark Souls, Berserk, Bloodborne, Claymore Science fantasy examples: Warhammer 40k (You really gotta check this series out, its insanely good)

My epic/high fantasy, Dragon Fire, hits all the nails in 110K words.

Such and underrated channel keep it up great video

Gargoyles is a portal fantasy? I guess it's kind of sort of an inversion of it, although with no hope of going home I think it's missing an important element. It's far better as an example of urban fantasy.

That was super informative. Never even heard about portal fantasy. Great list.

No mention of Low Fantasy? I appreciate your videos and channel. Thanks for posting this.

This has been extraordinarily helpful!! Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video!!

This is a fantastic video. Thanks for all the information on fantasy and it’s sub genres.

Don't be sad, I clicked the bell. :-) Thanks for turning us on to Klytics, I was looking for what genre my book series will be under. Thanks, Mister!

One of the series I am working on has at least half of all these genres, It has Science Fanasty with Military at its core, with 3 factions. Magepunk high fantasy, Steampunk Alchemist, and Solar/cyberpunk Tech.

Well, I'm glad I found this. I see this as a great reading list. Dude, you know your fantasy.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian romances. These could be considered the actual birth of the fantasy genre, even more than the poetic Edda of the Norse and the Homeric myths.

About the best fantasy video I've seen so far. Thanks Michael, it was very helpful.

This was great, thank you. Ill be sure to check out your other video now

Thank you so much for this video! It was very helpful.

Thank you for your videos, they’ve been very helpful❣️

Interesting. Want to write one but those are die hard fans and they will annihilate you in the reviews if you dont get it right. I need to do more research first. Thanks for the breakdown. Awesome video. Delivered concisely.

I'm making a book of short fantasy stories to start off, learn and improve. I'm hoping someday I can be able to write a full novel. :]

So helpful! Thank you!

Another iconic example of a dark fantasy and also a military fantasy is Glenn Cook's Black Company series. Think of the Vietnam War on LSD.

man i love your videos, and i'm really thankful for what you do. I'm working on my first two novels this year. Spent all 2020 world building and had enough material for two different worlds. I'm hoping to finish them before the end of the summer! All your insight into word count and trends, things to remember when writing. Have all helped me tremendously. Before this year i couldnt write more than 15k words no matter how many months i gave myself to work. I would always get stuck or feel that i hadn't set up anything right, screwed up with promises and tone, just the worst. But as of today im on the precipice of finishing two full length books. Thanks again! Don't ever tell yourself what your doing isn't making a difference. -Matthew

excellent video, thanks.

Thanks for this video. For anyone interested in a work of fantasy from an very unusual setting, check out "Nada the lily," by H.Rider Haggard. It's an amazing, yet sadly forgotten work of Historical fantasy set in South Africa during the reign of Shaka Zulu. It's well written and researched, it never overstays its welcome, coming in at about 300 pages.

Me. Strange and Dr. Norell is great historical fantasy of the regency period.

Is WarHammer 40,000k a fantasy world because I rlly need to know

I love your videos ❤️

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned such classics as E.E."Doc" Smith's Lensmen series and H. Beam Piper's Paratime, particularly Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

i have a request for you if it is possible..Could you do more about 1. the fantastic elements. 2. George MacDonald and his works as he is considered the father of Fantasy. Best wishes for you

Иногда читаешь книги вроде Принца теней и не понимаешь, что в них хорошего. Если первую еще можно перенести, то дальше воспоминание и гипертрофированное желание мести, просто убивает персонажа + рояли из кустов, и я не про взрыв замка, это было круто. Еще книга - война старика, ну очень медленное развитие, бои - так полная тоска, больше безвкусная копирка с Хайлана

For those interested in dark-fantasy, this genre is well-developed within the video game industry, with some even having books related to them. Example series are Diablo, Dragon Age, and Dark Soul to name a few. Each of them focuses on different aspects of the genre and succeed in their intent. A basic thing to look out for is the overall atmosphere of the world; such worlds tend to have an air of hopelessness about them, which by the end has been somewhat lifted. In case the world stays hopeless by the end, you may be actually writing a grimdark fantasy. Slightly off-topic, the Legacy of Kain is a gothic fantasy any fantasy writer could at least check once, being kind of a graphic novel series with added gameplay. There are cutscene movies on the Tube you can go through.

Really kike ur videos dude! It is helping me a lot in organizing my novel.

What genres would you place Harry Potter, or the Divergent series in ?

Have you ever read the Black Company books?

Wow...appreciated work.... I was struggling with this genre and i didn't know where to start..you gave me some guidance through 👍Thank you. @auhthorlevelup

Thanks for the insights. I wonder if there's a book or a website that helps you understand how to appreciate each of these genres, something like "How to Enjoy Military Fantasy For Dummies."

Thanks for the wonderful explanation! Man, I can't stand overly complex fantasy. I like simple story-lines like American Gods, The Dark Tower, Neverwhere, Zombie Fallout, Dresden Files, etc.. Too many characters and complex story-lines diminish how much I care for any particular one. Inevitably, one is more interesting than another and I have to read through parts that I'm not interested in to get back to the interesting parts. As an example, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series started off really good, but then the stories and characters started going their separate ways. Rand sort of became a jerk playboy, and it really turned me off to the character. Perrin and Mat were the only characters that I remember liking because they mostly stayed the same.

Like always, great video! I was wondering if you could read a short story I wrote a bit ago and give me some feedback on it. I think it’s pretty good myself but I’d like to get your opinion. If you have any suggestions for editing or otherwise, please feel free to let me know! I love your videos haha. Much love from me, Jasper. Here’s the short story. It’s title is “The Girl Who Wore the Stars.” There once was a girl who wore the stars. It was almost as if they were freckles that had been replaced by small, glimmering flecks of gemstones. Like stars, they shone brightly under the soft light of the moon, making it easy for her parents to spot her during their night trek up the mountainside. Like the stars she wore, her personality was bright and cheerful. She had beautiful, flowing locks of hair that framed her delicate features in a lovely canvas that beamed with hope. She was her parents’ pride and joy, much like any other child would be, but they were unprepared when she had been born. They feared that they would not be good parents, so they gave her away. It was on that fateful day that the little girl’s stars stopped glowing and they faded into a muted shade of gloomy grey. As wet tears streamed down her face and soaked her cheeks, her stars seemed to become even more dull. It was almost as if her hope was being washed away by the pain of separation. Three years later, after she was given away to a quaint little town’s local orphanage, she learned of her parents being close by. They were just a town over. She was told that they were looking for her and greatly regretted giving her up. Full of joy, she rushed over to the town and visited many homes to find them. When she hadn’t found them, she cried out and they came rushing out of a cottage, just three doors down from where she had stopped looking. The girl rushed over to her parents and they shared an embrace. It was on that hopeful day that the girl who lost her stars regained them and they shone brighter than ever before.

Talent is only 10% of how this works

I was hoping you'd mention Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. (Assassin's Apprentice etc.) Would you say it's Epic Fantasy or Sword and scorcery ?

My novel takes place in a fiction world but it doesn't contain magic. But it models arthurian fantasy a little and is more character driven. What genre would this be?

hey, love ur videos but why ur glasses don't touch ur ears? hahahah

If I am a Fantasy genre writer, can I write in any Fantasy subgenres or I have to pick only one of them?

You look like a young Captain Holt before he joined Brooklyn Nine-nine ;)

4:05 It's true though😂😂