Comments on: INTERVIEW: Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (a.k.a. James A. Corey, Author of ‘Leviathan Wakes’)

By: tam

tam — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:07:30 +0000

Dan Simmons is probably another exception to the 'one name for one genre' rule. At least brick n' mortar stores seem to stock his books.

By: Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:19:27 +0000

Urban fantasy is more forgiving, I agree. In part that's because it's got so many things in its petigree. Epic fantasy isn't, I think as forgiving. But I may be wrong about that. Eddard's spending an awful lot of time figuring out what happened to Jon Arryn.

By: Paul (@princejvstin)

Paul (@princejvstin) — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:08:00 +0000

And I think science fiction accepts things like mystery and romance and police procedural in a way that epic fantasy doesn't. I'm still thinking that one through, though.

I think Urban Fantasy DOES accept other things mixed in it pretty well--look at the rise of paranormal romance, for example.