Magical realism or fantasy?

We draw the line between the two genres by simply answering the key questions of a fictional world:

• does it relate to the common laws of physics of our own world?
• is magic dominating the world?
• is there any magic at all?
• do we follow the logic or the chaos?
• do we scrupulously explain the details, in order to ground and prove the point?
• do we explain the evolution of the fantasy species?
• are we in a rational environment in general?

These questions help us to distinguish the magical realism from the fantasy genre in fiction.

Is Globiuz magical realism or fantasy?

By leaning towards the rational explanation of the species, the rules of physics and the use logic, we almost always eliminate magic. That defines Globiuz mostly as the magical realism genre, yet keeping much of the material unexplained for the reader, thus sparing the room for the fantasy genre. There is the lore of the Globiuz evolution, the Radix era, the species that have died out long time ago, or are about to evolve; the powers that have been lost with time and the legends that are still questionable. Magical realism of Globiuz reminds us the world of a post-magical fantasy environment in where mechanical physics take over the environment.

Is magical realism a separate genre?

There is a common idea that magical realism is the genre that takes place in our world but with the fantasy creatures present as the natural part of it, e.g. a fantasy creature serves you a coffee in your local cafeteria. Thus, doesn't make much of sense of not relating it to the fantasy genre. This classification is merely the marketing tool to categorize books in certain 'shelves'. But is it a separate genre?

The short answer - it doesn't matter 

Many works qualify as the mixed genres. Our rule is simple - it could be both. In the example of the Globiuz series, it is the mixture of fantasy and the magical realism, for it is based on the rational grounding.

We deem the magical realism as the fantasy genre explained differently

Humanoid species that coexist with science and comprise their own evolution of Globiuz do not go against the reasonable and logical chains of our own world. Magical realism does not exclude the fantasy - it grounds and rationalizes it. The difference between the magical realism and the fantasy genre may vary from world to world, from author to author. Therefore, the scale of its measure is subjective for each book.