fat fantasy

fat fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fat fantasies)

1. A style of the fantasy genre that consists of sprawling stories in books with several hundreds of pages.
   • 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 249:

     Clearly men are financially more successful than women overall in the fat fantasy field, and clearly fat fantasy is the sales winner in the field of fantasy overall. The question we might ask then is why only Tor and DAW engage in extensive sales and marketing of fat fantasy.

   • 2005, Vox Day, "C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Religion in Science Fiction and Fantasy", in Shanna Caughey, Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth And Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 225.

     It frequently embraces a form of what on the surface appears to be religion, for what is a fat fantasy trilogy without a token cleric or priest, but nearly always warps the concept into something wholly unrecognizable.

2. A book in this style.
   • 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 249:

     So why don't these other publishers want the fat fantasies?

   • 2000, Jack Dann, "An Angry Celebration", in Avram Davidson, Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven: Essential Jewish Tales of the Spirit, Devora Publishing, →ISBN, page 10.

     In the face of a world going Tilt, in the face of greed, corruption, and, feh!, enough bad writing – enough mass market, interchangeable fat fantasies and denatured novels – to fill one of the terrible and dead kabalistic universes in its entirety, Avram Davidson stayed angry and wrote for the ages.

   • 2012, Dianna Wynne Jones, Reflections, Random House, →ISBN, page 195:

     One of the fat fantasies I had to read – a mere five hundred pages – Faith of the Fallen (a ‘Sword of Truth’ novel)* has: ‘He was too far away to see the green of her eyes, a colour he'd never beheld on anyone else . . .’ One OMT of this kind of book is that people never just see a thing, they always behold it.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat,‎ fantasy.