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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
Figging Mint:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on June 17, 2012, 04:56:45 PM ---Pat Elrod was griping on FB the other day that she needed to come up with a new genre that would put her in the J.K. Rowling class of best-sellerdom, and that vampires and wizards seemed to be overdone.
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Go back to source mythoi. Stop digging in other people's tailings.
LizW65:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on June 18, 2012, 12:43:08 PM ---I can't wait for zombies to stop being trendy, they really have no appeal to me.
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Agreed; I don't get the appeal of what is, basically, a mindless animated corpse at all.
What I'd really like to see is some clever tech/science based Steampunk fiction with no paranormal elements whatsoever.
OZ:
--- Quote ---What I'd really like to see is some clever tech/science based Steampunk fiction with no paranormal elements whatsoever.
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I wouldn't mind seeing this if someone could pull it off. It wouldn't even bother me if they cheated a little on the science as long as the writer knew the science and was aware of when and why they were breaking the rules. I say that because I don't know if I would even consider it steam punk if there weren't some mechanical marvels that might not strictly be possible unless they were in a universe where the laws of physics were slightly different than our own.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on June 18, 2012, 08:55:25 PM ---What I'd really like to see is some clever tech/science based Steampunk fiction with no paranormal elements whatsoever.
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Steampunk is actually the other fashionable genre thing I can't wait to be over, fwiw. Between the frequent unpleasant colonialist undertones and my lingering affection for the laws of thermodynamics, most of it does not work for me at all.
OZ:
...and that, the affection for the laws of thermodynamics, is why I don't know if anyone could pull off a steampunk story with no paranormal elements. I have read more than one steampunk story where perpetual motion machines were common but people marveled at a motorcycle or someone could get much more energy out of a system than they ever put into it. I can't enjoy that great a change from reality especially when it is introduced as not being supernatural. I would, however, like to read a steampunk story where the supernatural touch is light and only used when absolutely necessary.
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