Fallen Fairy Tales

[ellenkushner]

Added: DAMMIT! This was actually a post about the Fallen Princesses Project & also Lev Grossman (who pointed it out to me)'s new book The Magicians. Bad, bad, stupid cut-and-paste has failed me. Gone, gone, never to be re-undone. The links alone must suffice.

Here's what got pasted in instead (a comment I made to yesterday's Urban Fantasy post, but you should probably see it here, too):

* This 2008 Library Journal article by Nanette Wargo Donohue - footnoted in the Wiki "Urban Fantasy" listing - is spot on. Poor L. Miller's got no excuse!
Urban fantasy's roots date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Charles de Lint published his first short story collection about the fictional city of Newford, Dreams Underfoot, and the first volumes of the groundbreaking Borderlands shared-world anthologies, based on a world created by well-known fantasy author Terri Windling, were released. These works introduced readers to the possibility of supernatural, fantastic beings in modern settings, and other authors who contributed to the development of what is now identified as “traditional urban fantasy” included Emma Bull, Neil Gaiman, and Mercedes Lackey.

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Thanks for alerting me to these! :) The rapunzel one makes me want to write a poem.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Let me know when you do!

[sararyan.livejournal.com]

A couple of interesting critical takes on that series:
Fallen Princess Jasmine Raises Questions About Stereotypes and Princess Fat-Shaming.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you!