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What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
JamiSings:
More realistic humans. I'm tired of the perfectly in fit human woman or man being the hero. Make them short. Make them fat. Make them have a limb missing. Heck, just make them acne prone for all I care. Just make the humans seem more - human! Why should all heros and heroines be good looking? Why can't they look like some cross between The Phantom Of The Opera and The Elephant Man? Or at least be rather plain.
Fat women can kick vampire butt too, you know.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: JamiSings on December 01, 2007, 05:53:33 PM ---More realistic humans. I'm tired of the perfectly in fit human woman or man being the hero. Make them short. Make them fat. Make them have a limb missing. Heck, just make them acne prone for all I care. Just make the humans seem more - human! Why should all heros and heroines be good looking? Why can't they look like some cross between The Phantom Of The Opera and The Elephant Man? Or at least be rather plain.
Fat women can kick vampire butt too, you know.
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We need a Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in one.
LizW65:
I'd like to see the New England vampire legends explored a bit more - to my knowledge, only one YA author has tackled this subject, and not in a fantasy/supernatural context.
ailishsmom:
--- Quote from: JamiSings on December 01, 2007, 05:53:33 PM ---More realistic humans. I'm tired of the perfectly in fit human woman or man being the hero. Make them short. Make them fat. Make them have a limb missing. Heck, just make them acne prone for all I care. Just make the humans seem more - human! Why should all heros and heroines be good looking? Why can't they look like some cross between The Phantom Of The Opera and The Elephant Man? Or at least be rather plain.
Fat women can kick vampire butt too, you know.
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I think that's what I loved about Shaun of the Dead. If some supernatural apocalypse did happen, the average population wouldn't form well-oiled platoons to take them out. The survival of the world really would depend on a couple of slacker, beer drinking buddies that thought it was all a joke initially.
Are there any books along those lines?
LizW65:
--- Quote from: ailishsmom on December 02, 2007, 03:00:38 PM ---I think that's what I loved about Shaun of the Dead. If some supernatural apocalypse did happen, the average population wouldn't form well-oiled platoons to take them out. The survival of the world really would depend on a couple of slacker, beer drinking buddies that thought it was all a joke initially.
Are there any books along those lines?
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Yep. Terry Pratchett has written most of them.
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