idreamofcairo: (politics are weird)

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posted by [personal profile] idreamofcairo at 12:25am on 07/08/2009
You are right, it isn't our world, but it's also not Middle Earth either. I think that I have a tendency to let "high fantasy" become just "fantasy," that I always think of mystical creatures and knights and fair maidens when I hear "fantasy" unqualified.

And I understand why you get stuck on "urban." I was meaning it more in the urban legend sense than in the urban city sense.

I wouldn't call it contemporary fiction either, but nontraditional fantasy bothers me, too. There needs to be a happy medium word that connotes a modern (or perhaps industrialized? or post-feudal?) world with fantastical elements. Something that would encompass Frankenstein's monster and the Impala and the Sandman and be very clear that those are all included under this definition.
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nightbird: Mucha illustration, young peasant holding scythe and grain (abstract functions)

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posted by [personal profile] nightbird at 02:08am on 07/08/2009
When I started Unlined, which, I swear to somebody will come back full swing someday, I called it a magazine for "unexpected fantasy" -- I kind of like that. I mean, those different eras that you mean bring up different genres already -- post-industrial fantasy becomes steampunk, to me, and post-feudal just means something could have a Renaissance flavor. I do think the satisfying term hasn't really come up yet -- but this is why we talk about it!
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