Town or Country
Jun. 26th, 2009 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerNicola Griffith asks an interesting question - here's my hastily scribbled answer (as I am, in fact, running off to the country):
*Such* a good question - esp for fantasists! Tolkien set the mark with LOTR and his love of countryside - and a generation of American (& Brit?) fantasists then had to dig their way out of his love and knowledge into our own spaces, which tended to be Urban. In the 1980s worked a lot with Terri Windling, culminating in the Bordertown series, which some say was the start of Urban Fantasy....Still going on today.
Me, I made up an entire city to play in, and 3 novels later am still enjoying being there.
*Such* a good question - esp for fantasists! Tolkien set the mark with LOTR and his love of countryside - and a generation of American (& Brit?) fantasists then had to dig their way out of his love and knowledge into our own spaces, which tended to be Urban. In the 1980s worked a lot with Terri Windling, culminating in the Bordertown series, which some say was the start of Urban Fantasy....Still going on today.
Me, I made up an entire city to play in, and 3 novels later am still enjoying being there.