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Epic Fantasy - Contemporary Earth Setting?
Paynesgrey:
Brings to mind also Mercede's Lackey's Serrated Edge series where elves and suchlike live among us and most just don't know, and Wen Spencer's Tinker where Pittsburgh is plopped down in Elfhome for 30 day intervals. But again, there isn't much in the way of horses and Questness.
LizW65:
A film example of what you're looking for might be Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, in which the search for the Holy Grail is brought into modern-day Manhattan.
Dresdenus Prime:
My current book is aiming to be something like this. It was originally intended to be a standard Urban Fantasy, but there are quite a few out there already, a lot of really awesome ones too. I wanted to do something a little different. I guess this could be considered Alternate Universe Fantasy? Haha! Who knows?!
Aminar:
Would the Percy Jackson series qualify? I'm reading them as research for my job mentoring kids and they seem to fit the bill storyline wise. They're a bit short to be truly epic but they follow the same plot structure and the like.
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--- Quote from: Aminar on September 24, 2012, 07:34:33 PM ---Would the Percy Jackson series qualify? I'm reading them as research for my job mentoring kids and they seem to fit the bill storyline wise. They're a bit short to be truly epic but they follow the same plot structure and the like.
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taken as a whole I think so. They are certainly modern day, have epic fantasy battles for the fate of the world taking place in downtown New York. As you say they are individually on the short side, and definitely aimed toward a younger demographic, but they have all the key features I can think of
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