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Hee hee hee!
I just think this is pretty neat. Local Fairies Stop Development. See...this is why, whenever I see yet another urban fantasy world that proclaims that modern humans are crushing magic, or just don't want to believe, or have no imagination or faith, I have to roll my eyes. If it's not fairies, it's stains on underpasses that look like the Virgin Mary. Or it's lights in the sky that must be aliens. Or it's the monster under your bed that you never /quite/ stop believing in, or the time that you swore you predicted that someone would call you right before they did. There's a bountiful amount of belief in the world.
The overemphasis on mundane denial of the fantastic in most urban fantasy is an easy way to create tension, but it's lazy. I think there ought to be a new take on the situation, that isn't 'the magical world integrates seamlessly into the real world' that, say, Hamilton takes.
I just think this is pretty neat. Local Fairies Stop Development. See...this is why, whenever I see yet another urban fantasy world that proclaims that modern humans are crushing magic, or just don't want to believe, or have no imagination or faith, I have to roll my eyes. If it's not fairies, it's stains on underpasses that look like the Virgin Mary. Or it's lights in the sky that must be aliens. Or it's the monster under your bed that you never /quite/ stop believing in, or the time that you swore you predicted that someone would call you right before they did. There's a bountiful amount of belief in the world.
The overemphasis on mundane denial of the fantastic in most urban fantasy is an easy way to create tension, but it's lazy. I think there ought to be a new take on the situation, that isn't 'the magical world integrates seamlessly into the real world' that, say, Hamilton takes.