What is the genre if a book?

Answer 1

• 1993 D. Bischoff Essaying Quantum (Spring-Summer) â„– 30/1: This professor was ultimately equally contemptuous of [...] SF and mystery magazines in particular. One day he said to me, "David, you seem to have some talent - but why don't read better literature?" [sic] Actually, I read much fine material outside of my indulgences in genre even then.
• 1993 J. Clute SF Novels of Year D. Garnett New Worlds 3 â„– 210: If there were three best novels of the year, this was one, Swanwick's another and Fowler's a third. All three were hatchlings of genre, all three were mutant.
• 1998 L. Shepard Must Have Been Something I Ate J. Dann Nebula Awards 32 â„– 8: I feel inclined to celebrate the literary traditions of genre if only for a final time, to mention that the two most prominent contributors to the field during the first part of the century, George Orwell and H. G. Wells, were considered literary writers.
• 2001 G. Dozois M. Swanwick Being Gardner Dozois â„– 236: Yes, it's quite true that the expectations of genre weight it a bit in one way, toward one interpretation, but my steadfast refusal to admit that they're [sc. time-travelers] actually real makes it as ambiguous as possible.
• 2004 P. Di Filippo Asimov's SF (July) â„– 136/2: Deemed in a cover blurb to consist of "interstitial fiction" (the newest synonym for "slipstream"), this five-story project does indeed navigate th

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Answer 2

A genre in a story is the category in which the plot is placed. For Example: -adventure -romance -sci fi -non-fiction -fiction

Answer 3

The genre is the type or class of book.

For Example: A book may be a Horror novel, the genre could Sexy Vampire.

Answer 4

Fiction