04-04-2013, 11:11 AM
Someone pointed out to me that this genre is called Urban Fantasy. I really like that name. I always thought it to be "contemporary fantasy" but maybe urban fantasy is a sub genre of contemporary fantasy.
Is "Once Upon A time" another example of a contemporary fantasy TV show? Or does it fit in better with "reworked fairy tales"? "Grimm" could be put in that genre as well. The author Robin McKinley provided a few examples of those with books Beauty, Spindle's End, and Rose's Daughter.
"Beauty and the Beast" (the TV show) could be in that category, too. But I think the writers have chosen to be science fiction and not fantasy.
It seems that there are a lot of contemporary fantasy TV shows. Just some examples, off the top of my head are "Charmed", "Supernatural", and "Buffy".
But not so many books fall into that category. Not counting Harry Potter and Twilight the only books that I can think of that fit into the contemporary/urban fantasy genre are the Word and The Void Trilogy by Terry Brooks and the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher.
Can anyone else think of some books that are urban fantasy?
Is "Once Upon A time" another example of a contemporary fantasy TV show? Or does it fit in better with "reworked fairy tales"? "Grimm" could be put in that genre as well. The author Robin McKinley provided a few examples of those with books Beauty, Spindle's End, and Rose's Daughter.
"Beauty and the Beast" (the TV show) could be in that category, too. But I think the writers have chosen to be science fiction and not fantasy.
It seems that there are a lot of contemporary fantasy TV shows. Just some examples, off the top of my head are "Charmed", "Supernatural", and "Buffy".
But not so many books fall into that category. Not counting Harry Potter and Twilight the only books that I can think of that fit into the contemporary/urban fantasy genre are the Word and The Void Trilogy by Terry Brooks and the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher.
Can anyone else think of some books that are urban fantasy?