Yeah, I didn't say that as clearly as I should have.
A made-up city (or county, in Faulkner's case) that's still supposed to be in real-world America is not the same as a made-up city in a made-up country.
Actually, de Lint's Newford is a good example. He's writing urban fantasy in a made-up city, but it's still not secondary-world fantasy. And my post was trying to be about secondary-world fantasy, not all the other stuff.
There's all kinds of urban/contemporary fantasy that uses America (and Canada); Neil Gaiman's American Gods is a case in point. What I was trying to get at is why secondary-world fantasy doesn't use America, too.
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Re: Again, maybe not useful, but I enjoyed reading this
Date: 2006-03-22 05:46 pm (UTC)A made-up city (or county, in Faulkner's case) that's still supposed to be in real-world America is not the same as a made-up city in a made-up country.
Actually, de Lint's Newford is a good example. He's writing urban fantasy in a made-up city, but it's still not secondary-world fantasy. And my post was trying to be about secondary-world fantasy, not all the other stuff.
There's all kinds of urban/contemporary fantasy that uses America (and Canada); Neil Gaiman's American Gods is a case in point. What I was trying to get at is why secondary-world fantasy doesn't use America, too.