I'm reading both and like them both, but they are quite different. I probably prefer the Elantra books, but the House War books have intrigued me more than I expected.
In addition to the names listed her (Hambly, Kerr, Elliott, etc.), some of Lynn Abbey's old stuff (I'm thinking _Daughter of the Bright Moon_) is second-world, arguably epic, and definitely not-urban fantasy, though her more recent stuff has all been urban in flavor (Jerlayne, the _Time_ novels). Also, there's Amanda Downum's new novels (The Drowning City, The Bone Palace) which are secondary-world, technically could be called urban in that they are all centered around one city or another, but feel pretty blasted epic to me.
The thing is, I'm not sure where the dividing line lies between "secondary-world, non-urban" fantasy and "epic" fantasy. Is it length? Is it the presence of certain tropes in the content? For a large slug of my favorite female authors, there's some significant chunk of their work that I'm totally unsure how classify.
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Date: 2011-04-17 09:43 pm (UTC)In addition to the names listed her (Hambly, Kerr, Elliott, etc.), some of Lynn Abbey's old stuff (I'm thinking _Daughter of the Bright Moon_) is second-world, arguably epic, and definitely not-urban fantasy, though her more recent stuff has all been urban in flavor (Jerlayne, the _Time_ novels). Also, there's Amanda Downum's new novels (The Drowning City, The Bone Palace) which are secondary-world, technically could be called urban in that they are all centered around one city or another, but feel pretty blasted epic to me.
The thing is, I'm not sure where the dividing line lies between "secondary-world, non-urban" fantasy and "epic" fantasy. Is it length? Is it the presence of certain tropes in the content? For a large slug of my favorite female authors, there's some significant chunk of their work that I'm totally unsure how classify.