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Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
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--- Quote from: arianne on May 08, 2013, 04:43:59 AM ---I keep hearing people say that this is original, but I could never see it myself. Sure, I've never heard of any other fictional vampires who sparkle (although I'm sure if I went digging hard enough I would probably find something similar somewhere--nothing new under the sun etc), but it didn't seem to make THAT big of a difference to me. I mean, the rest of the 99% of traits are still borrowed from someone else or mythical sources or wherever. JB's vampires feeding on lust felt more original to me than the sparkly-sparkle.
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OH I wasn't saying that those books were original, but that was the best example of a bad book I could give that overused someone else's ideas, and had one idea that maybe original. :)
Snowleopard:
--- Quote from: o_O on May 08, 2013, 05:29:54 PM ---I'll take a 3rd-person Case of The Toxic Spell Dump any time you feel like writing one...or a Khaavren romance ftm.
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I love the Case of The Toxic Spell Dump - that's a fun read.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: o_O on May 08, 2013, 05:29:54 PM ---I'll take a 3rd-person Case of The Toxic Spell Dump any time you feel like writing one...or a Khaavren romance ftm.
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If we're expanding "urban fantasy" to include fantasy set in cities across a wider range than what's currently generally called genre UF, I'll certainly second the choice of a Khaavren romance; or indeed, Swordspoint, The Malacia Tapestry or Walter Jon Williams' Metropolitan and City on Fire. (Brilliant books, those last, which not enough people have read. An entire planet covered by city in the Coruscant/Trantor mode, kept going by magic that works as a utility. WJW calls them Totally Urban Fantasy.)
LizW65:
I'm presently doing the research for a story that I just realized pretty much fits all the criteria in my above post, though it may more accurately be called "magical realism" rather than UF. It features a single paranormal element in an otherwise conventional thriller, and the protagonist spends much of the story convinced that what he's experiencing is either a side effect of the medication he's on, or his subconscious trying to tell him something.
Galvatron:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on May 08, 2013, 07:32:11 PM ---I'm presently doing the research for a story that I just realized pretty much fits all the criteria in my above post, though it may more accurately be called "magical realism" rather than UF. It features a single paranormal element in an otherwise conventional thriller, and the protagonist spends much of the story convinced that what he's experiencing is either a side effect of the medication he's on, or his subconscious trying to tell him something.
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Is it a made up world or does the story take place in our world.
Also, I see this often with horror
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