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What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
novium:
I was about to say, any quick study of irish history will reveal that while the irish may have a lot of luck, most of it is bad :P .... which in itself would make an interesting story. someone cursed with the luck of the irish.
--- Quote from: neurovore on December 03, 2007, 04:18:13 PM ---Particularly the luck of the real Irish, which is that everyone fights with everyone else and it rains all the bloody time.
There is a magical payphone just outside Beaudry Metro station in Montreal which has the property that if you try calling someone from it three times they come out of the door beside you. I have only tested this on one person, but I'm going to use it in a novel anyway.
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Hell's Belle:
I've noticed the increasing popularity of the figure of the PI in these Urban-Fantasy settings, too. If it's one of those things where it's basically a day job that pays the bills, and is only mentioned in passing, it's cool.
Otherwise, I'd like it a whole lot more if the authors in question didn't do their research on the field by watching old "Magnum, PI" and "Moonlighting" reruns.
This, of course, goes for any career choice that's popular at the time of writing.
I have a love/hate thing with trilogies. I adore the fact that the whole story is condensed into three books...except when I don't. Sometimes, I just need to know that there's going to be something that has no definitive ending.
Hell's Belle:
--- 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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A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. It's not a vampire-kicking story, but it's a good one IMO.
The Corvidian:
I kinda like the stories where the outsiders are the heroes. Rob Thurman is good about this, as both of the Leandros brothers are outsiders. (click to show/hide)One is Roma, a group of outsiders, and the other is half Roma/half Auph (Black Elf). The Auph would give the Winter Court the heebee-jeebees.
I could see a fat woman, though I prefer the term "big woman", give vampires whatfor. I think it would be best for a YA novel. A young woman, who doesn't fit into the popular crowd, and who ends up saying everybody because of her hobbies, and because of her genetic backround. She'd be the descendent of the Jotunar (Ice Giants).
I'd also like to see more technomagic. Now the Dresden Files are good, but I'd like to see a series where you have thaumaturges who use computers like magic mirrors, TVs like crystal balls, and Blackberries like wands. You would later find out that magic and science work very well together.
JamiSings:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on December 16, 2007, 03:21:34 AM ---I could see a fat woman, though I prefer the term "big woman", give vampires whatfor. I think it would be best for a YA novel. A young woman, who doesn't fit into the popular crowd, and who ends up saying everybody because of her hobbies, and because of her genetic backround. She'd be the descendent of the Jotunar (Ice Giants).
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Frankly there's too many YA books where some girl or boy is "a bit of an outsider" cause they're part something or other - and they're the heros of the story. I want an adult novel where she is just an ordinary human being who happens to get sucked into kicking undead or fairy butt. And preferably she'd be fat and short like me cause I'm sick and tired of the Xena-wannabes. Maybe she can find something that would help her. Or maybe she could just have a talent that actually helps in kicking supernatural butt. Since I've always wanted to be the inspiration behind a fictional character let's just use the fact I can sing and sing well as an example - She manages to calm down a rampaging werewolf by crooning the Beatles' Yesterday or Glenn Miller's Moonlight Cockstail to it. (Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast and all that.)
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