Modern/Urban Fantasy

[Sir Ironside]

The currently I like TR Pratt's Marla Mason series. Its The Sopranos mixed with The Dresden Files.

[SionEwig]

Never heard of it, but then Modern/Urban Fantasy seems to be the big popular thing getting written and published. Some excellent, some so bad it's a waste of time and paper, most somewhere in between.

A couple of my favorites are Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Simon Green's Darkside series.

[Diamond]

You know, I think the only urban fantasy books I've read and enjoyed were Terry Brooks' Running With the Demon and its two sequels, and a very cool 'vampire' noir book by SA Swiniarski/Andrew Swann called Blood and Rust.

[g.bone]

There's the Simon R. Green "Nightside" series.

The latter books, however, seem to be not as great as the beginning ones.

[SionEwig]

There's the Simon R. Green "Nightside" series.

The latter books, however, seem to be not as great as the beginning ones.

Nightside, you're right. It was late and my brain was shutting down.:rolleyes:

[Agentdark]

Dresden files was good. any others i might like

[SionEwig]

Dresden files was good. any others i might like

Depends, there are a lot out there currently with the primary protagonist being female (not that there is anything wrong with that). And a lot seem to be thinly veiled erotica/porno/romance. But there are a number of good ones also. Might help if you'd mention some other books that you've enjoyed.

That said, Simon Green's two series are nice (Nightside and Shamus Bond).

[Bulgaroktonos]

I liked On a Pale Horse, an excellent book by Piers Anthony.

[SionEwig]

I liked On a Pale Horse, an excellent book by Piers Anthony.

That one was very good. The rest of the series was much more hit or miss (primarily miss), but On a Pale Horse was tops.

[Sir Ironside]

There is The Sisters of the Moon series, by Yasmine Galenorn. Its marketed as romance, but it is Urban Fantasy.

[Valdemar I]

Personal I like the "Mercy Thompson series/Alpha and Omega" series by Patricia Briggs, it much more down to earth than "the Dresden files", and has much more real world feeling. Of course it's more a mix of "Hidden History/Urban Fantasy/Alternative History" than just Urban Fantasy.

http://www.patriciabriggs.com/

[Bulgaroktonos]

That one was very good. The rest of the series was much more hit or miss (primarily miss), but On a Pale Horse was tops.
Very much agreed

[Agentdark]

Never read anything else in Urban Fantasy. All I know is that Anita Blake sucks ass.

[SionEwig]

Never read anything else in Urban Fantasy. All I know is that Anita Blake sucks ass.

The early Anita Blake stuff was good, up through Obsidian Butterfly I think. But after that it just went down the drain into basiclly porn. And her Merry Gentry series was so bad that I couldn't even finish the first book (and that's saying something for me to not finish a book).

[Sir Ironside]

Never read anything else in Urban Fantasy. All I know is that Anita Blake sucks ass.

The early Anita Blake stuff was good, up through Obsidian Butterfly I think. But after that it just went down the drain into basiclly porn. And her Merry Gentry series was so bad that I couldn't even finish the first book (and that's saying something for me to not finish a book).

She's getting away from the soft-core porn.

Personal I like the "Mercy Thompson series/Alpha and Omega" series by Patricia Briggs, it much more down to earth than "the Dresden files", and has much more real world feeling. Of course it's more a mix of "Hidden History/Urban Fantasy/Alternative History" than just Urban Fantasy.

http://www.patriciabriggs.com/

Good series.

[JC Denton]

I liked On a Pale Horse, an excellent book by Piers Anthony.

Ya' know, this one band that has the ex-guitarist of Slipknot took their name from this book. And I liked their first 2 albums.

Oh, and OAPH the book rocks. Running with the Demon that Jim mentioned is also pretty good. It's part of a trilogy.

Never read any others though.

[SionEwig]

Some other's I've enjoyed.

Mark Simmons - One Foot in the Grave, Dead on my Feet, Habeas Corpses - all quite funny.

Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse series (the HBO series True Blood is based on them) - Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, and others, can't remember the order they were written in, read them that way. Excellent books, got the feel of the South and small towns.

Kim Harrison - Dead Witch Walking, The Good, The Bad, and The Undead, Every Which Way But Dead. Pretty good.

Julie Kenner - Carpe Demon, California Demon, Demons are Forever, Deja Demon. All very good - read in order - imagine Buffy grown up, married and with kids.;)

Harry Turtledove - The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump - absolutely hilarious, and an AH also.

[Timmy811]

I want to read The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia. Looks cool.

http://ofblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/ekaterina-sedia-secret-history-of.html

[Sir Ironside]

Some other's I've enjoyed.

Mark Simmons - One Foot in the Grave, Dead on my Feet, Habeas Corpses - all quite funny.

Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse series (the HBO series True Blood is based on them) - Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, and others, can't remember the order they were written in, read them that way. Excellent books, got the feel of the South and small towns.

Kim Harrison - Dead Witch Walking, The Good, The Bad, and The Undead, Every Which Way But Dead. Pretty good.

Julie Kenner - Carpe Demon, California Demon, Demons are Forever, Deja Demon. All very good - read in order - imagine Buffy grown up, married and with kids.;)

Harry Turtledove - The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump - absolutely hilarious, and an AH also.


Kim Harrison's novels are AH also.:D

[SionEwig]

Kim Harrison's novels are AH also.:D

True, but I honestly consider the AH element(s) to be more incidental than any real part of the story.

[SionEwig]

Another set I enjoyed was Devil's Tower and Devil's Engine by Mark Sumner. Though not strictly Modern fantasy (they are set in the late 1800s), I found them to be quite good depictions of what a world might be like soon after 'magic' returns.