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Aug. 3rd, 2008 09:57 pmHave you ever said to yourself, "You know, self, I really want to read some urban fantasy* profic where the urbs in question is Elizabethian London?" Because if you have, I have recs for you!
( Midnight Never Come, by Marie Brennan )
( Ink and Steel, by Elizabeth Bear )
If you are not here for Elizabethan urban fantasy, then I offer you Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Malcolm Gladwell (scroll down for the link to the .pdf file), which the optional discussion question: does this theory explain how BNFs become BNFs?
Finally, I'm about a quarter of the way into Twilight (ie, before it gets seriously creepy), and I think it's much easier to read in a language I don't speak very well- I get the plot, but miss out on the extraneous adjectives (because I don't know them) and Bella's internal monologue.
*I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to best define urban fantasy - so far I've settled on "works which feature the interaction between fantastical and mundane cultures", but I suspect this is highly non standard, especially in the lack of insistence on modern-day culture.
( Midnight Never Come, by Marie Brennan )
( Ink and Steel, by Elizabeth Bear )
If you are not here for Elizabethan urban fantasy, then I offer you Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg by Malcolm Gladwell (scroll down for the link to the .pdf file), which the optional discussion question: does this theory explain how BNFs become BNFs?
Finally, I'm about a quarter of the way into Twilight (ie, before it gets seriously creepy), and I think it's much easier to read in a language I don't speak very well- I get the plot, but miss out on the extraneous adjectives (because I don't know them) and Bella's internal monologue.
*I'm still trying to figure out exactly how to best define urban fantasy - so far I've settled on "works which feature the interaction between fantastical and mundane cultures", but I suspect this is highly non standard, especially in the lack of insistence on modern-day culture.