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sUrban Fantasy/Science Fiction: Lazy Gimmick or Legitimate Genre?
Saturday , 20, January 2018 Authors, Fiction 12 CommentsTyping “Urban Fantasy” into Google results in 7.7 million results, dozens of Wiki articles, and a slew of book recommendations, many with covers that call to mind late 90’s schlock like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. (I can hear the furious typing already…) Now, I don’t pretend to have read every popular work classified as “urban fantasy”, especially […]
Certain writers evoke a time and place in an especially vivid manner. To the point that a reader gains a genuine sense of familiarity with a setting completely alien to his own experience. Its sights, sounds, and way of life. One might imagine this is the province of serious dramas, but I have come across it […]
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