Is there any way, any way at all, to bring Faery into the modern world?
When I search online for Faery fae etc. in fiction I mainly find cute stuff, or exotic props for teen romance and plot-driven adventure. Other material – fiction or non – looks at Faery through the prisms of psychology or politics. Any of this might be fine in its own terms, but surely misses the wonder, longing and dread that inhabited the original tales.
Tolkien of course managed it, in The Lord of the Rings and later in Smith of Wootten Major. These were not however in modern settings. Susanna Clarke achieved it in the more or less modern setting of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Leaving these masterpieces aside, probably a number of unknown or little-known authors have tried it and managed it, but have been lost, to me at least, within the flood.
My own With the Fairies is no action-packed page-turner; romance there is, but maybe not as a selling-point. But I have given much thought to what the wonder, longing and dread of Faery would look like in a modern urban setting. I do urge you to have a look, at least at the Goodreads reviews. It is available as Kindle ebook (you can preview the first part) or paperback.
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