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Are there any fantasy novels with pistols, revolvers, rifles and so forth and so on? If not, why not?
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Fantasy and Guns
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Lots of modern fantasy, for sure.
Pirates of the Carribean style stuff (I'm sure there must be novels of that style) is pure fantasy and flintlocks. Steampunk stuff, of course, is very much that, though I'm not personally familiar with the novel genre. It's definitely a thing.
Fantasy-with-guns sometimes gets called something else (steampunk, etc; though steampunk is more than just that).
Pirates of the Carribean style stuff (I'm sure there must be novels of that style) is pure fantasy and flintlocks. Steampunk stuff, of course, is very much that, though I'm not personally familiar with the novel genre. It's definitely a thing.
Fantasy-with-guns sometimes gets called something else (steampunk, etc; though steampunk is more than just that).
Joel Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame series has them.
Harry Turtledove's Darkness novels don't have gunpowder weapons, but DO have fantasy analogs of basically everything that was available in WW2.
Harry Turtledove's Darkness novels don't have gunpowder weapons, but DO have fantasy analogs of basically everything that was available in WW2.
sabrinathecat
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Yes, but I can't remember the name.
There were 2 novels. In the first, the crew of the ship are thrown forward in time to a new age of magic. One of them goes to join the evil sorceror and army, while the others try to survive and find elves and suchlike. In the second, the son of one of the crew and an elf continues to fight. Ug, still can't remember the name. THe ship had some small fire-arms. There was an order of knights that had a magic cave that responded to vocal commands, but they didn't understand why it was.
Found it: Echos of the Forth Magic by R.A.Salvatore.
There were 2 novels. In the first, the crew of the ship are thrown forward in time to a new age of magic. One of them goes to join the evil sorceror and army, while the others try to survive and find elves and suchlike. In the second, the son of one of the crew and an elf continues to fight. Ug, still can't remember the name. THe ship had some small fire-arms. There was an order of knights that had a magic cave that responded to vocal commands, but they didn't understand why it was.
Found it: Echos of the Forth Magic by R.A.Salvatore.
C. S. Friedman's The Coldfire Trilogy has some guns in it, although that's about the pinnacle of lost technology on a planet where magic - in the form of the mysterious Fae force - exists. The three books in the series are Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, and Crown of Shadows.
Johnathan
Johnathan
A newer release, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-thousand-names-django-wexler/1115916927?ean=9780451465108 has cannons. And an interesting style of summoning magic.
It was a decent read.
It was a decent read.
Grumpy RPG Reviews
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Thank everyone for the suggestions.
