Urban Fantasy Reading
So, I've been getting into that old favorite in reading genre lately, the urban fantasy.
Not the urban fantasy pioneered by Mercedes Lackey, Charles deLint, et al, where you have fantastic elements in a modern setting, but the sort where you have a fantasy setting with a lot of modern sensibilities and an almost industrial attitude towards magic.
Yeah, that kind of thing. Some people call it 'dungeonpunk' or 'mage-pulp'. It's typically fairly lighthearted, the hero is usually a thief or an apprentice mage, and things are rarely world-threateningly epic. Although they can be. There's often some romance, although it rarely gets explicit. And there's a lot of glittering nobles, romantic rogues, and arrogant mages...
Some examples of my current favorites in the genre:
J F Rivkin's Silverglass
Anne Lesley Groell's Cloak and Dagger
Anne Logston's Shadow Hunt
Lisa Shearin's Magic Lost, Trouble Found
Simon Green's Hawk and Fisher is about as grimdark as I care to get.
If you're the sort who'd recognize both, think more Eberron than Forgotten Realms.
Any suggestions are welcome; books currently in print (or available on Amazon, at least) are preferred.
Not the urban fantasy pioneered by Mercedes Lackey, Charles deLint, et al, where you have fantastic elements in a modern setting, but the sort where you have a fantasy setting with a lot of modern sensibilities and an almost industrial attitude towards magic.
Yeah, that kind of thing. Some people call it 'dungeonpunk' or 'mage-pulp'. It's typically fairly lighthearted, the hero is usually a thief or an apprentice mage, and things are rarely world-threateningly epic. Although they can be. There's often some romance, although it rarely gets explicit. And there's a lot of glittering nobles, romantic rogues, and arrogant mages...
Some examples of my current favorites in the genre:
J F Rivkin's Silverglass
Anne Lesley Groell's Cloak and Dagger
Anne Logston's Shadow Hunt
Lisa Shearin's Magic Lost, Trouble Found
Simon Green's Hawk and Fisher is about as grimdark as I care to get.
If you're the sort who'd recognize both, think more Eberron than Forgotten Realms.
Any suggestions are welcome; books currently in print (or available on Amazon, at least) are preferred.