Comments on: Fantasy vs. Reality

By: pcwrede

pcwrede — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:45:32 +0000

I was definitely thinking of Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy books for the forensic magician and the cooler, and Harry Potter for the elf emancipation movement, so Michelle gets ten brownie points. The flying carpets (the ones I was thinking of, anyway) are from “Operation Chaos” by Poul Anderson, and the dragons-as-airplanes from either Naomi Novik’s Temeraire books or some of Harry Turtledove’s alternate-magical-WWII books.

By: Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:27:40 +0000

In planning my next novel, I made the deliberate decision to take the Basque fairy tell out of the “real” world and move the story into a world of its own because I didn’t want to try to fit the story into the current political situation here Spain and the Basque Country.

By: Irina

Irina — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:56:38 +0000

IIRC, Diane Duane’s Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses has an elf emancipation movement and forensic magicians.

By: Chicoy

Chicoy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:14:51 +0000

Terry Pratchett has the ultra-cold future meat shares storage house. Would that be spells instead of refrigeration? I remember Mendenbar and Cimarene traveling by flying carpet a good deal in Searching For Dragons. Not sure if that’s what you were thinking, of though.

By: Michelle Bottorff

Michelle Bottorff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:08 +0000

Lord Darcy’s assistant is a forensic magician, and the flying carpet airplanes etc. sounds an awful lot like the setting for The Toxic Spelldump. But I’m sure there are other examples of each. I’m blanking on elf emancipation, the only example I can seem to come up with at the moment is Harry Potter.