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Well, there's a fair amount of urban fantasy going around right now, as well as magical realism. I have a set of urban fantasy characters myself.
If you're looking for stuff to read that's non-medieval fantasy (assuming you also mean fantasy set in fictional worlds that feels medieval), here's a few I recommend.
Sorcery and Cecelia: or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot and its sequels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline B. Stevermer. This is set shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Magic is openly practiced and has changed the way some things are done (for instance, they make reference to Napoleon having had super powerful wizards).
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik is set during the Napoleonic wars, but there are dragons. Meaning air battles!
Diane Duane's Book of Night With Moon and To Visit the Queen are books about cats working magic in modern day New York (though they spend a lot of the second book in Victorian England as well).
As for magical realism, I highly recommend the works of Haruki Murakami. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a good place to start. Anne Ursu's Spilling Clarence is also an enjoyable read.
If you're looking for stuff to read that's non-medieval fantasy (assuming you also mean fantasy set in fictional worlds that feels medieval), here's a few I recommend.
Sorcery and Cecelia: or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot and its sequels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline B. Stevermer. This is set shortly after the Napoleonic Wars. Magic is openly practiced and has changed the way some things are done (for instance, they make reference to Napoleon having had super powerful wizards).
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik is set during the Napoleonic wars, but there are dragons. Meaning air battles!
Diane Duane's Book of Night With Moon and To Visit the Queen are books about cats working magic in modern day New York (though they spend a lot of the second book in Victorian England as well).
As for magical realism, I highly recommend the works of Haruki Murakami. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a good place to start. Anne Ursu's Spilling Clarence is also an enjoyable read.
