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* The ''[[Discworld]]'' series started off as fairly straightforward parodies of [[Heroic Fantasy]]. Later novels have been much more heavily focused on social satire, with heavy emphasis on philosophy and topics such as morality, class warfare, religion, theoretical physics, and modern city life. It works because they're still bloody hilarious.
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books started off as a slightly tongue-in-cheek [[Urban Fantasy]] and gradually became an epic [[High Fantasy]] in which [[Anyone Can Die]]. [[J. K. Rowling]] planned from the start that the series would become [[Darker and Edgier]] as Harry (and his readers) grew up.
* In ''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'', they have a section ("One [[The Lord of the Rings|Ring]] to Rule them All" said the Old Cowpoke) on genre shifts handled poorly. Opens with a woman writing in a diary hinting at a romance novel (an obvious [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''Bridget Jones' Diary''), ends with [[Apocalyptic Log|an entry of OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD HE'S NOT HUMAN.]]
* P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'' series starts out in [[Low Fantasy]] territory in the first book, ''God Stalk''; while there's foreshadowing there, the wider [[High Fantasy]] plot doesn't really emerge until the second book, ''Dark of the Moon''. The shift alienated some readers, who wanted more of the same style of book as the first.
* [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''Treasure Box'' turns out to be {{spoiler|one of his "tales of dread,"}} but you don't realize it's in that genre until well into the story, about the same time the main character does.
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