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Feb. 13th, 2009 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I need recommendations for the best urban fantasy books or series out there.
For the sake of this, think the modern interpretation of urban fantasy - our world, but with magic/vampires/weres/fae in it.
[cross-posted from my website]
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Date: 2009-02-13 07:08 am (UTC)I also enjoy Kim Harrison's Dead Witch series, but that's a little more post apoc. books than our world.
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Date: 2009-02-13 09:26 am (UTC)Finder et al
Date: 2009-02-13 09:59 am (UTC)its generally considered "elfpunk", and it is the first in a series of novels of the Borderlands
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Date: 2009-02-13 10:34 am (UTC)The Weather Warden series (can't remember the author here). It's kind of cheesy and romancy but it entertained me for at least the first 4 books. :)
Sunshine (again, I can't remember the author)
I'll be back once I figure out the forgotten authors
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Date: 2009-02-13 10:45 am (UTC)And don't let me forget to give you the Sookie Stackhouse books tomorrrow! :)
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Date: 2009-02-13 11:09 am (UTC)And don't worry, I won't let you forget the books! I plan on scoping out the rest of your collection, too, if you don't mind. ;)
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:20 pm (UTC)And of course I'll throw my uf series out there as the best of modern UF.. but I think I may be partial!
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Date: 2009-02-13 12:55 pm (UTC)And Rachel Caine is the author of the Weather Warden series.
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Date: 2009-02-13 06:42 pm (UTC)They are amazing.
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Date: 2009-02-13 01:53 pm (UTC)Must admit, I'm a culture not so enjoyed ANANSI BOYS and AMERICAN G-DS for that reason, too. And THE GRAVEYARD BOOK *deserved* its kudos.
Basically, Gaiman rocks.
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Date: 2009-02-13 12:53 pm (UTC)I have both Bitten and Sunshine here if you haven't read them and want to.
*I am, of course, avoiding the obvious with The Vampire Chronicles. ;)
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:03 pm (UTC)There's A LOT of great stuff out there for fans of Charles de Lint, Emma Bull & Will Shetterly!
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Date: 2009-02-13 02:22 pm (UTC)Margaret Ronald just published a book: Spiral Hunt. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Date: 2009-02-13 05:27 pm (UTC)Otherwise, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master & Margarita remains one of my most loved books. That's set in 1920s Moscow, but the Devil visits, and there's lots of delightful social commentary about the period slithered in between.
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Date: 2009-02-13 08:42 pm (UTC)Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld (1st: Bitten)
Shanna Swendson's Katie Chandler series (1st: Enchanted, Inc.)
Rachel Caine's Weather Warden series (1st: Ill Wind)
Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse series (1st: Dead Until Dark)
Vicki Pettersson's Signs of the Zodiac series (1st: Scent of Shadows)
Julie Kenner's Kate Connor, Demon Hunter series (1st: Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom)
I'm sure I could think of more but that should get you started! ;)
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Date: 2009-02-14 05:06 am (UTC)I know you're already a huge deLint and Gaiman fan, and, honestly, they were the ones who came to mind first and foremost. Keainid recently found for me at the library a copy of Gaiman's second collection of short works, "Fragile Things", which had previously escaped even my awareness -- there's a lot in there that could prove fodder for this theme.
There's Terry Brooks' "Knight of the Word" set...
When it comes to vampire lit, I actually haven't run into anything I've enjoyed more than Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" (the original set and the newer ones). Surprisingly few authors seem to approach the issue from the perspectives of vampires not suddenly losing all personality, when they lose their humanity. I also was a fan of her "Mayfair Witch" series, and the witch-vampire blended novels which came up at the end of both series'.
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Date: 2009-02-21 10:05 am (UTC)You deifnately must read Graveyard Book, one of his best ever.
Other stuff not mentioned here includes:
Sherri Tepper - Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Family Tree
Kim Wilkins - Giants of the Frost, The Autumn Castle
Rachel Pollack - Uncontrollable Fire