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Your Pet Urban Fantasy Cliche Peeves
o_O:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on May 08, 2013, 06:55:36 PM ---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.)
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I would toss Perdido Street Station and Iron Council on that TUF heap.
Sully:
I dislike how traditional/outdated/slow to evolve some things are. Swords being the primary weapon of (non-magical)conflict, etc.
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on May 08, 2013, 03:03:48 PM ---I find it no less plausible than holding down a full-time job, a happy marriage, a complex and busy social life, several fairly active internet presences, a couple of other incidental hobbies, and still having time to write a new chapter or do equivalent amounts of other writing-related stuff about 85% of weeks (and catch up before or after the weeks that's not possible.)
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Soooo...not very many characters should be able to manage it so consistently? ;)
LizW65:
--- Quote from: Sully on May 11, 2013, 03:39:51 AM ---I dislike how traditional/outdated/slow to evolve some things are. Swords being the primary weapon of (non-magical)conflict, etc.
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That's one thing I like a lot about the Artemis Fowl series: the Fae have not only moved with the times, they're far more advanced technologically than humans.
mithrandirthewhite:
With Artemis Fowl, they always were more advanced than people, so when we are in the 21st century tech, they are so much farther ahead.
I also would like to find more series where there is magic, and it is used, but it's not a essential part of the series, ala Discworld. It exists, now move on.
o_O:
--- Quote from: Sully on May 11, 2013, 03:39:51 AM ---I dislike how traditional/outdated/slow to evolve some things are. Swords being the primary weapon of (non-magical)conflict, etc.
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FWIW it's an absolute beeyotch to come up with a close-combat weapon better than swords - and then you run into the Everyone And Their Auntie Is An Expert problem telling you that they Know Olympic Sabre Fencers Who Would Mincemeat Your LaserHalfStaff/PlasmaAssegai Wielder. With A Spoon.
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