urban fantasy
English
Noun
urban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)
- (literature) A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
- (literature) An individual work in this genre.
- 2012, Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, Everyone's an Author, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 666:
- More recently, Amanda Hocking, author of young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasies, self-published nine of her own novels, several of which made the New York Times best-seller list.
References
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “urban fantasy, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.
Further reading
- Urban fantasy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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