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Urban Fantasy
I must admit to never having read any urban fantasy until I joined a new crit group with the Muse Online. I needed a short story crit group because my novel group is strictly for 60,000+ word works. (Turned out that my short is becoming a novel anyway.) We've had several members come and go in the past year and most of them were writing about vampires and werewolves in a modern setting. I take that to be urban fantasy.
Now I'm beginning to think that my novel's most appropriate description is urban fantasy, even though it doesn't have a single vampire, werewolf, or zombie. It does take place in a modern urban setting (well, half does) and out-of-this-world powers and happenings drive the action -- so does that qualify it for the genre?
However, do I want to avoid that genre? I really find the interest in the stock characters -- vampires in love etc -- to be quite quaint. Is the genre the kiss of death for a novel that I hope to promote to a wider audience? Is there an urban sci-fi category?
Now I'm beginning to think that my novel's most appropriate description is urban fantasy, even though it doesn't have a single vampire, werewolf, or zombie. It does take place in a modern urban setting (well, half does) and out-of-this-world powers and happenings drive the action -- so does that qualify it for the genre?
However, do I want to avoid that genre? I really find the interest in the stock characters -- vampires in love etc -- to be quite quaint. Is the genre the kiss of death for a novel that I hope to promote to a wider audience? Is there an urban sci-fi category?
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