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user-inactivated · 3117 days ago · link · · parent · post: September 14th: What are you reading this week?
Don't you have to be a romance novel with monsters to be urban fantasy? I love Sandman, the Invisibles and Hellblazer as much as the next guy of a certain age, but they all came before the scope of urban fantasy narrowed. I wonder if how any of them would fair if the genre has been established when they'd started. That was what I was getting at, which I think is what you're getting at withIt could have gone on shelves as "urban fantasy" and no one would have batted an eye.
It's almost like there's no good fantasy left by definition