Kristopher's comments (member since Dec 31, 2008)

Kristopher's comments from the Urban Fantasy group.

Fables is great, and Sandman is a classic. Another one to check out is Rex Mundi. It's set in the 1930s--except in an alternate history where sorcery exists and the Inquisition is still around--and it's about people searching for the Holy Grail.

Don't know how many of you caught Stephen Colbert interviewing Neil Gaiman last Monday, but here's the link: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert...

Pretty funny, mostly about The Graveyard Book and Gaiman winning an American book award despite being English. Check it out.

A few people are looking for more diversity in their urban fantasy, so I thought I’d post this: http://craiglaurancegidney.wordpress.com...

February being Black History Month, The Carl Brandon Society has put out a list of recommended speculative fiction by writers of African descent.

About half the list seems to sit comfortably in the “urban fantasy” category, including Octavia Butler’s vampire novel FLEDGLING and THE ICARUS GIRL which is “set in England and Nigeria, about magic gone wrong and twisted around an unsuspecting child.”

The only book I’ve read on the list is FLEDGLING, but I think I’ll have to check some of the others out soon.

new_user wrote: "I'd love to see a greater diversity in characters. I think that would be awesome. *points to Nalini Singh*"

I haven't been here very long and maybe you all have already covered it, but I finished The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. It's an urban fantasy based around Russian and Slavic mythology. (With some legendary figures from Russian history thrown in too.)

I'd never even heard of most of them before, and just the way Sedia wrote about them was my favorite part of the book.