Twilight Goblin
Dreamer
Everyone always reads the magical ancient stories reminiscent of a medeival style. But what about a more modern fairy tale? Why can't the high school girl go out and find the magic orb of doom and save the world?
I'd like to add Ben Aaronovitch to the authors mentioned above. I've greatly enjoyed his Rivers of London books.
What usually keeps these stories apart from "normal" fantasy is that the supernatural/fantasy elements of the story are generally hidden from the public whereas in traditional fantasy everyone knows there are elves and magic around.
Why? I always wondered why more authors don't simply take a traditional fantasy world with all the trappings and with the fantasy races intact integrated in society and simply move the world forward in time into the modern era. I would like to see orcs, elves or goblins as engineers on a train, bellhops in a hotel or even as architects or deep-sea divers. It could be fun to have a commune of elves living in a place not unlike Central Park, making trinkets out of beads and selling them to passerbys to make money.
As far as I can tell a lot of people have this very idea. I know I have, and I do at some point intend to write something to that effect. So honestly? I believe the reason we don't see much of it is because it doesn't sell. No idea why. Perhaps all it needs is for famous authors like China Mieville to come out with such a setting (ignoring the fact that he already has with Bas-lag, despite it being an alternate world setting).
As far as I can tell a lot of people have this very idea. I know I have, and I do at some point intend to write something to that effect. So honestly? I believe the reason we don't see much of it is because it doesn't sell. No idea why. Perhaps all it needs is for famous authors like China Mieville to come out with such a setting (ignoring the fact that he already has with Bas-lag, despite it being an alternate world setting).
I heard Brandon Sanderson's mistborn sequel shoots ahead 300 years to a modern time with electricity and skyscrapers etc
Alloy Of Law is more like the wild west isn't it?
I'm not sure. I'm just going on a brief statement I read, which said skyscrapers, trains, and electricity, so if it's wild west, I stand corrected. That'll learn me to do some research before I yap.