There's tons of modern fantasy. Western Urban Fantasy aside, probably half of anime, manga, and other Japanese works are about fantasy elements in modern life.
One of my stories is a fantasy story in another world, but one that's more like 2018 than any past eras.
Yeah, to many urban fantasy keep the fantastic of the rest because the normal world is just that...too "Normal" and mundane, I feel that is a wasted.
In general if one want to have a Fantastical setting set in a "modern world"this step are important:
-Limiting firepower: I mean let face it, nobody wants to have a super badass get down by a punk with a gun, its just too much so you need at least to have a anti bullet deflector, maybe a rune armor that can deflect proyectiles?
-I think that maybe Knight orders evoled into things like Modern Swat, Green berret and many other "Elite" formation since it follow kind of less the same model.
If you are going to have a president at least change the name because is just sound lame, I dont know...First speaker, maybe? that sound better.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
What I've always though would be interesting is exploring how fantasy cosmology would interact with technological development. A lot of fantasy universes have crazy cosmology, like for example in the Elder Scrolls series the universe is wheel-shaped and the stars are portals to a different plane, and lots of settings have stuff that's even more out there. Are physics even still the same in these settings? What would their industrial eras be like, if there's apparently infinite alternate dimensions to explore for resources?
It's hard to imagine how different things could be, since we only really have one actual reference.
They should have sent a poet.
It depend on how magic is set, that change EVERYTHING.
If magic is a finite resourse like Mana, then you will have oil wars like the middle east, if a magic source then they will permate everything and it would be preeeeeetty damn diferent, and so own and so own and so own.
decide how magic works and move everything for it.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Even without crazy magical stuff, simple changes to the way the world works could have massive consequences. I recall a fantasy universe (not sure which) that didn't have any space, basically just air all the way up for each plane. If that's the case, would they be able to launch satellites? What would a 21st century world without any space technology look like? Or if there is magic, that implies certain laws of physics are different in that universe. Even something most fantasy universes take for granted like magic bypassing conservation of energy would have massive impact on everything from consumer electronics to weapons design.
Not to be bad but can you said why? or to at least some ideas from that book?, it would help a lot.
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Of course there is a diference between what Magic does and what magic IS, the former stay in the result of magic applying by a mage, the second is issues that come for it.
Well, guys, I'm sorry, but it takes place on Alternate History Earth.
You guys seem to not have read most of my post, because I kind of explicitly stated I wouldn't just be relocating a traditional fantasy story in a modern setting.I'd be taking the elements that authors draw on for traditional fantasy and finding their modern counterparts. It has quite a bit more in common with a Conspiracy Thriller or Post-Cyberpunk story than it does with a High Fantasy or Sword and Sorcery epic, and it doesn't have that much in common with either two.
Also, I will utterly avert Guns Are Useless and Fantasy Gun Control, so no limiting firepower. Sorry guys, it's just not that kind of story.
edited 23rd Mar '18 12:52:23 PM by SomethingRandom113
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So, awhile back, I was thinking about fantasy stories, and I got to thinking about how the middle ages has its fantasy stories (in fact that's the basis for the entire fantasy genre) and the wild west has its fantasy stories. Hell, even post-revolution America has its fantasy stories, but there don't seem to really be any "modern" fantasy stories. Sure, there are some fantasy stories set in modern times, but these still use pretty much the same creatures and themes as the aforementioned Medieval Fantasy (or occasionally Weird West, like in Stephen King's The Dark Tower books, although they start off in a more traditional (albeit post-apocalyptic) Weird West setting).
That was when I got to thinking "maybe I should write a 'modern fantasy' story". I eventually figured out the basics of the setting. Traditional fantasy is usually based around Mythology, Legends, and occasionally Fairy Tales, with varying degrees of the author's imagination mixed in, so I decided to do the same thing with the modern equivalents: Urban Legends, Conspiracy Theories, and even a little bit of Creepypasta and Cthulhu Mythos elements mixed in, as well as some (usually more "modern") traditional fantasy elements and a lot of author imagination. Although The Masquerade is in effect (like in most Urban Fantasy stories where The Magic doesn't Come Back), it is only partially so, and is multi-layered. Pretty much everyone knows about the Wyrd and the basics of its use, but most people don't know the faintest bit about Deathwyrding (or even that it's possible), and even those that do will probably have to do a lot of obscure research to learn how to create a Zombi, and even most of the people who know how to create zombii dismiss The Reptilians as a stupid conspiracy theory (although, on this world, they aren't aliens, but a different species of sentient magical humanoids that just happened to evolve on Earth alongside humans, as well as a few others. They also aren't, on average, any more evil or ambitious than the average human, although they're much more secretive). What exists of The Masquerade is mostly due to government cover-ups, the secrecy of Wyrders who achieve pretty much any amount of skill above average, and The Powers That Be. The setting is going to be a bizarre Alternate History version of The late '90s or The early 2000s. I'm planning for the story to be somewhat of a mix of Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Investigation, and Conspiracy Thriller, with some Cyberpunk elements added in (although it actually subverts a lot of those elements, having a Morality Kitchen Sink, one of the two main villains of the first book (a Government Conspiracy) being well-meaning, if ruthless, and having the world be not nearly so crapsack-y as it sometimes seems, as well as being slightly on the idealistic end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism... so, maybe more like Post-Cyberpunk than actual Cyberpunk), even though technology isn't any/is only a few years (I haven't decided yet) more advanced than in the actual 1990s/2000s. I'm aiming for an exposition style pretty similar to the exposition in The Tales of Alvin Maker (say what you will about Orson Scott Card, he's a really good author when he doesn't let his political opinions get in the way of his work).
Also, the Wyrd isn't sentient, but it possesses an animalistic intelligence, and being weird is literally its only instinct. It often evolves and mutates, though not in noticeable ways, which is why, although ancient Wyrded (enchanted) items still work, they're sometimes a bit... buggy. Unlike in El Goonish Shive, though, it doesn't care how many people use it. It also doesn't give a damn how they use it.
Anyways, I'd really appreciate some advice on the setting and, to a lesser extent, the characters and plot (although I've got it somewhat figured out).
edited 13th Mar '18 3:54:27 PM by SomethingRandom113
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