Urban Fantasy Reading

[not_croaker]

So, I've been getting into that old favorite in reading genre lately, the urban fantasy.

Not the urban fantasy pioneered by Mercedes Lackey, Charles deLint, et al, where you have fantastic elements in a modern setting, but the sort where you have a fantasy setting with a lot of modern sensibilities and an almost industrial attitude towards magic.

Comments

[robotech_master]

Discworld.

Not the early, Hitchhiker's-Guide-with-magic stuff, but the later series, especially the City Watch books, The Truth, and the Moist von Lipwig books. Ankh-Morpork is a fantasy city undergoing its own version of an Industrial Revolution, and it's fascinating to behold.

(Though I'd be surprised if you hadn't already read at least some of them by now.)

[thandrak]

Glen Cook's Garret, PI.

The classic, and still _very_ readable, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books.

[5eh]

Ditto on the Grey Mouser and Discworld:

Watch Novels:
Guards! Guards!
Men at Arms
Feet of Clay
Jingo
The Fifth Elephant
Night Watch
Thud!

Industrial Revolution:
Moving Pictures
The Truth
Monstrous Regiment
Going Postal
Making Money

[not_croaker]

I'll admit, I was turned off of Discworld not just by the "Hitchhiker's Guide to Dungeonland" attitude of the early novels, but by the sheer volume of work. I'll take a look at Guards! Guards! and see if I like what I see.