When Dorothy arrives in Oz, the readers follow her into a land replete with little people, enchanted animals, evil witches, good witches, and eccentric characters. Such is the stuff of fantasy. Readers step outside their reality into a realm where imagination and suspension of disbelief allow anything to happen?and it often does. Yet, within the…

Folklore, the oldest form of storytelling, reflects the culture of a country, hence its nonfiction classification. Through these tales, one senses the values, the humor, and the lifestyles of its peoples. A powerful genre, folklore is the foundation on which high fantasy is created, epic films are produced, and a single story is passed from one…

Fantasy and science fiction are two genres that are products of imagination. Both present alternate worlds governed by their own laws and values, but it is the plausibility of events in each world that sets the two apart. In fantasy, events happen by magic or inexplicable means. In science fiction, events could happen based on advanced…