Someone reading Portobello Photographer asked, "When London's apocalypse occurred, why were the saviours ravens, not humans?" He meant it as a general critique of magical realism and the genre. I had, of course, prepared for the question. So, what if the story tends to be exceedingly weird? The genre truly defies nature; it’s rebellious and individualistic; it likes to stand tall and stand apart. The best way to define fabulism is by example. I’d had to defend my love of the fantastical in almost every workshop I’d gone through.

Fabulist fiction exists in the no-man 's-land between “genre” and “literary” fiction, drawing heavily from each. It has this in common with a number of other subgenres—surrealism, magical realism, and weird fiction. A lot of books could be reasonably given several of these labels, just as a lot of books could be reasonably shelved as both literary fiction and fantasy. What........

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