Action Adventure

Action adventure fiction is a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, forms the main story line. Adventure novels and short stories were popular subjects for American pulp magazines, which dominated American popular fiction between the Progressive Era and the 1950s. Adventure fiction often overlaps with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, Robinson, spy stories, science fiction, fantasy, (Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien both combined the secondary world story with the adventure novel and Westerns. Not all books within these genres are adventures. Adventure fiction takes the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting. The Tyrant’s Tomb, Star Wars, Heroes of Olympus series. homepage