Fiction driven by danger, travel and fast moving events, including adventure fiction, action fiction and the Chinese wuxia tales of martial artists. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as fiction about adventures, danger or high energy action. It excludes romance, fantasy and crime fiction as such. The group sits within the Epic and Heroic Narrative subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
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Sword-and-sandal - Wikipedia
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Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pl.: pepla), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epic films mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages.
Wuxia (Wikipedia)
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Wuxia (武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ], lit. 'martial arts and chivalry') is a genre of Chinese fiction and low fantasy concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.
Adventure fiction (Wikipedia)
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Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.
Action fiction (Wikipedia)
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Action fiction is a genre in literature that focuses on stories involving high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events.
Robinsonade (Wikipedia)
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Robinsonade is a literary genre of fiction wherein a person or a group of persons is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island, and must improvise the means of their survival from the limited resources at hand.
Men's adventure magazine
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Men's adventure is a genre of magazine that was published in the United States from the 1940s until the early 1970s.
Immram, Wikipedia
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An immram is a class of Old Irish tales concerning a hero's sea journey to the Otherworld (see Tir na nOg and Mag Mell).
Echtra, Wikipedia
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An echtra or echtrae (pl. echtrai) is a type of pre-Christian Old Irish literature about a hero's adventures in the Otherworld or with otherworldly beings.
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