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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?

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OZ:
And I thought that I was being anal when I had a problem in "science" fiction worlds with predator to prey ( if indeed there were any prey at all) ratios that were all out of whack. I try not to even think about economics in most sci fi or fantasy countries or it will make me pull out the little hair that I have left. There are also the systems of government that sound wonderful but would rapidly implode if someone tried to use them with real people. Usually I just intentionally overlook this sort of thing but every once in a while it sneaks up on me and slaps me in the face.

Snowleopard:
The willing suspension of disbelief.
I can do it but I refuse to hang it by an unravelling cotton thread over the Grand Canyon - that's just
too much to ask.
As you say, every now and then it just up and slaps you in the face
and you can't enjoy it anymore.

LDWriter2:
Getting back to UF books.

For some reason I recently remembered one more. A HD type of character. I can't recall the writer but the title is "Urban Knight". It's a YA book I think by the way it was written but it has a recommendation from William Shatner on the cover. I know there's a second one out some place but I haven't seen it.

And there is another series that might be UF. A kinda fusion of UF, alternate universe with a touch of steampunk. I say it might be UF because the tech is late 1800s or earlier 1900s. Not sure what time period UF has to be in to be UF. Looks like an English type culture but in a made up country not in London. I say a touch of steampunk because they fly in airships not airplanes but it fits with the made up culture and tech development. 

Anyway it's the Renegade Wizard series by K. E. Mills. I recently found out there's a fourth which I rejoiced about because the third sounded like the end. But Barnes and Noble didn't have it last week.


If you want plain old fantasy definitely read the series-Raines Benares- by Lisa Shearin. Or did I suggest that one already? In either case it's worth reading.

Yeratel:
I'm not sure whether to class Randall Garrett's alternate history "Lord Darcy" stories as Steampunk, or precursors of Steampunk. In the alternate universe, magic works, which has held back the development of technology to the point that by the 1950s, the world's technology base was just getting to where it was in Victorian times, in our timeline.  Both Garrett's original stories, and the continuations written by Michael Kurland are good reads, though.

OZ:
I loved the Lord D'Arcy series. I was unaware that anyone had continued them. I will have to look for the Michael Kurland stories.

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