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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
LDWriter2:
First of all: I don't think Lord D'Arcy would be any form of steampunk. It used magic not steam or 1800 to early 1900 tech to do things. Could be magicpunk maybe. :)
Second of all: I loved that series too. The new guy did a few, I forget the exact number but it was low. He changed a couple of things but kept most of it the same. His writing style is different of course and you can tell when the series switched over. But he was good.
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: OZ on June 23, 2012, 04:26:56 AM ---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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Michael Kurland is pretty good, and blends seamlessly into Randall Garrett's universe with the novels A Study In Sorcery and Ten Little Wizards. Kurland also has another series all his own, featuring Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty, as the protagonist.
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: LDWriter2 on June 23, 2012, 04:49:30 AM ---First of all: I don't think Lord D'Arcy would be any form of steampunk. It used magic not steam or 1800 to early 1900 tech to do things. Could be magicpunk maybe. :)
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That's why I said "a presursor to steampunk", though it really is in a class by itself. The technology is steam era, with locomotives, and airships, and wireless telegraphy in a 1950s time period, where the Plantagenets still ruled England, and never succeeded in colonizing the Americas, and magic was the core power source of governments and medicine.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on June 23, 2012, 04:50:27 AM ---Michael Kurland is pretty good, and blends seamlessly into Randall Garrett's universe with the novels A Study In Sorcery and Ten Little Wizards. Kurland also has another series all his own, featuring Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty, as the protagonist.
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Hmm, thought there was three or four...maybe I made them up in my mind. :)
That is a universe I would love to be able to write in. I wonder if there is any fan fic anywhere online.
LDWriter2:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on June 23, 2012, 04:57:43 AM ---That's why I said "a presursor to steampunk", though it really is in a class by itself. The technology is steam era, with locomotives, and airships, and wireless telegraphy in a 1950s time period, where the Plantagenets still ruled England, and never succeeded in colonizing the Americas, and magic was the core power source of governments and medicine.
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I didn't recall the airships but I know they had a magic telephone and a couple of other devices.
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