Talk:Urban fantasy

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so what about things like Dresdin Files or Tails from the nightside?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.251.40 (talk)

The term has changed meaning over time and is used differently by different people. As a genre, it seems to encompass anything involving fantasy elements and a real world setting. As a marketing category, it seems to mainly refer to the elves in racecars stuff. Post-Buffy, Laurell K. knockoff, vampire hunter snark stuff is often labeled as Fantasy Noir, Urban Fantasy Noir, Dark Fantasy, Urban Horror, etc. I don't think publishers have settled on a consistent term, but that's the category I'd place Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series in. Another related genre is Paranormal Romance, which is often the very same stuff but sold by romance imprints instead of sf/f/horror ones. The trouble is that definitions of this stuff come from highly non-authoritative interviews with people in the publishing world, and they don't all agree. It's hard to find encyclopedia-worthy sources. Franzeska (talk) 17:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Does anybody else think that Anthony Horowitz (with The Power of Five) and/or Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus-Trilogy) should be added too? --91.35.245.37 (talk) 15:43, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Urban vs. contemporary fantasy

I'd like to see this article explain a little more clearly how urban fantasy is distinct from other forms of fantasy in contemporary settings. marbeh raglaim (talk) 11:37, 20 May 2008 (UTC)