Showing posts with label Hamid Ismailov. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Genre-blending that defies labels: From Romantasy to experimental fiction

In  Alt Text: A collage of five genre-blending book covers: The Atlas Six, The Serpent and the Wings of Night, We Computers, Babel, and A Touch of Jen. These novels fuse fantasy, romance, satire, speculative fiction, and experimental narrative to challenge literary conventions.
What do you call a novel that blends gothic romance, dark academia, political allegory, and a magic system based on linguistic theory? 

In 2025, the answer might be: a bestseller. Genre boundaries are increasingly porous, and today’s readers are embracing the hybrid. Welcome to the era of genre-blending fiction, where labels are looser, rules more elastic, and expectations deliciously disrupted.