It's the first in a Mercy Thompson graphic novel series.
Oh, look at the pretties!
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Strix - Aug 27, 2009 5:20:38 pm PDT #9878 of 28385
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
sj - Aug 27, 2009 5:22:51 pm PDT #9879 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It's the first in a Mercy Thompson graphic novel series.
I noticed that today, and, of course, I am going to have to get it. I am halfway through Blood Bound right now, AIFG.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2009 8:02:02 pm PDT #9880 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Interesting bit on urban fantasy dominating the science fiction/fantasy market.
Some of the comments suggest this trend (and Twilight) can be traced back to Buffy. (And I don't disagree.)
Publishing is so weird right now. I really thinking publishers don't understand their market anymore.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 29, 2009 6:32:30 am PDT #9881 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"Urban" fantasy? I'm not sure I get the term. Buffy was suburban if anything, and isn't Twilight semi-rural?
Are they using urban for modern-day?
Polter-Cow - Aug 29, 2009 6:35:54 am PDT #9882 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frank, basically. Urban fantasy is when you have a modern-day setting with a fantasy world bleeding into it, as opposed to LOTR or Narnia where the fantasy world is the primary setting.
Amy - Aug 29, 2009 6:38:30 am PDT #9883 of 28385
Because books.
Publishing is so weird right now. I really thinking publishers don't understand their market anymore.
Why? Expand on that?
beth b - Aug 29, 2009 12:42:43 pm PDT #9884 of 28385
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Wasn't charles de lint before Buffy I think of him as the urban fantasy writer
Calli - Aug 29, 2009 5:08:35 pm PDT #9885 of 28385
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yes, Charles de Lint was writing back in the late 80s. I think of him as the granddaddy of the movement. His Moonheart caught me at just the right time—I read it to bits.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2009 5:56:09 pm PDT #9886 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emma Bull's War For the Oaks came out in 1987. That was my first exposure to the genre. That and the Bordertown books edited by Terri Windling. (Bull and Shetterly were both contributors to those books.)
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2009 6:34:51 pm PDT #9887 of 28385
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think of Bull and Shetterly first when I think of the genre. I don't try and think of Shetterly so much anymore.