The Twenty-Sided Sorceress

[M. Alan Thomas II]

Does anyone know anything about this Twenty-Sided Sorceress urban fantasy novel series (sometimes called the "Jade Crow" series after the main character) by Annie Bellet? It appears to feature a sorceress who runs a game shop.

This is a semi-professional inquiry, as my coworker who selects the fantasy collection at my library is trying to figure out whether to buy it and asked my opinion.

—Alan

[Ted Skirvin]

Never heard of it; which is not surprising since I never read urban fantasy. But, I do object to the term "urban fantasy" since the setting could be in a rural area or even the suburbs. A better term would be "modern supernatural" or something like that.

Ted

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From: M. Alan Thomas II <m.alan.t...@gmail.com>
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Subject: [CAR-PGa] The Twenty-Sided Sorceress

Does anyone know anything about this Twenty-Sided Sorceress urban fantasy novel series (sometimes called the "Jade Crow" series after the main character) by Annie Bellet? It appears to feature a sorceress who runs a game shop.

This is a semi-professional inquiry, as my coworker who selects the fantasy collection at my library is trying to figure out whether to buy it and asked my opinion.

—Alan

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[M. Alan Thomas II]

Good point. I'm just borrowing the term from the person who asked me about it. I'd support "urban fantasy" as a category with some overlap with "modern supernatural." For example, a fantasy story set in 1920s St. Louis is urban fantasy but not modern (unless it's "early modern"?). A fantasy story set at the edge of "the fields we know" in modern upstate NY is modern supernatural but not urban.

This still leaves open how to classify Glen Cook's Garrett novels, which are noir detective stories set in a pastiche of St. Louis in a fantasy world with modern wartime and postwar economic concerns but no electricity or explosively combustive technology (gunpowder, combustion engines). They're definitely urban, and they're definitely fantasy, but . . . .

—Alan

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ted Skirvin <tedsk...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Never heard of it; which is not surprising since I never read urban fantasy. But, I do object to the term "urban fantasy" since the setting could be in a rural area or even the suburbs. A better term would be "modern supernatural" or something like that.

Ted

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From: M. Alan Thomas II <m.alan.t...@gmail.com>
To: car...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 7:29 PM
Subject: [CAR-PGa] The Twenty-Sided Sorceress

Does anyone know anything about this Twenty-Sided Sorceress urban fantasy novel series (sometimes called the "Jade Crow" series after the main character) by Annie Bellet? It appears to feature a sorceress who runs a game shop.

This is a semi-professional inquiry, as my coworker who selects the fantasy collection at my library is trying to figure out whether to buy it and asked my opinion.

—Alan

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