| Re: What is your ideal concept of fantasy?
Very much agreed. And that's interesting what the editor said. My dad's in advertising (not for books though) so that where my marketing comment came from.
Lucifer- that's cool, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something great! I love Charles de Lint (why I started a thread on him) he's great for the urban fantasy. Someone else that's good is Mercedes Lackey. She's got the slightly more typical stuff going in her Valdemar series, but she's also got Bedlam Bards and The Serrated Edge which are set in modern times. The Serrated Edge stuff is great about mixing tech and magic, and portraying the good and bad elves.
She's also got something else going on that I do like as well- She's retelling some of the old fairy tales, but from slightly more um, historical view, but at the same time, more fantastic. It's the Elemental Masters stuff, if anyone else has read it, I'd love to know.
~BandSmurf |