The thing about genre urban fantasy as a whole that does somewhat get to me, much though I love several individual examples, is how much of it is transplanted European mythologies with no trace of the native powers remaining.
That and a bit of a grumble going in here about things that are definitely a) fantasy and b) urban but don't get called "urban fantasy", ranging from China Mieville to Ellen Kushner to Sarah Monette to Walter Jon Williams' Metropolitan and City on Fire (because, dude ? That series is, like, Trantor with magic. It's Totally and Utterly Urban Fantasy.)
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Date: 2010-02-24 05:42 pm (UTC)That and a bit of a grumble going in here about things that are definitely a) fantasy and b) urban but don't get called "urban fantasy", ranging from China Mieville to Ellen Kushner to Sarah Monette to Walter Jon Williams' Metropolitan and City on Fire (because, dude ? That series is, like, Trantor with magic. It's Totally and Utterly Urban Fantasy.)