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Favorite Urban, Fantasy
Hi everyone,

I thought I'd start a thread on Urban Fantasy - what are people here reading and what influences you in your writing.

I've been a fan of Urban Fantasy (or non-traditional Fantasy) for years - probably due to reading The Borribles at a fairly young age. When I moved from reading more young adult to adult novels, I found there was a lack of non-traditional fantasy.

Emma Bull's The War for the Oaks transplanted a fairy war into Minneapolis, and Megan Lindholm (a pseudonym of Robin Hobb) wrote Wizard Of The Pigeons, which was an early book to use the now fairly common archetype of the urban shaman/wizard. Apart from these I didn't find a great deal to read.

Neil Gaiman's move from comics into novel writing seemed to change this. In the past 10 - 20 years there's been an explosion of urban fantasy. In the past couple of weeks, I've read the most recent Jim Butcher novel - Changes, and the second novel in Kate Griffen's London based Matthew Swift books - The Midnight Mayor. What other good Urban Fantasy is there?

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