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Can someone give me books that begin with a mundane setting before entering the fantasy world!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Most of them!. Joseph Campbell describes the plot lines of the classic epics in his Heroes with a Thousand Faces and one of the things he mentions is the start in reality before moving into the unreality!. It's a basic story device to start mundane then move to the magical!.

That aside you have the Narnia books, Harry Potter, Bridge to Terabitha, The Never Ending Story, Susan Cooper's Dark is rising series, Edward Eiger's Half Magic, you could list dozens without ever getting off the kiddy shelf!. The normal kids who find out they're magic or find a gateway to a magical world is a stock scenario!. I can even remember browsing a book about Mormon kids who travel in time to visit with witnesses of jesus' second coming!.

It is just as common in adult fantasy and science fiction!. Whether the aliens kidnap someone from their back yard (Heinlein's Have Space Suit will Travel), a state trooper is accidentally transported via lateral time machine into a world without gunpowder (Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen), or a Vietnam soldier is transported to a Magical Realm (Heinlein's Glory Road as well as Daley's Doomfarers of Coramonde)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sherrilyn Kenyon's books do that!. They start out in New Orleans (or sometimes Seattle and places like that) and go into an intriguing twist on Greek Mythology!.

Anita Blake books by Laurell K!. Hamilton start in St!. Louis and basically revolve around the concept of Vampires in every day society!.

I hope these help :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

if u tell me what mundane is i might answer!. Im a book-a-holic [book lover]
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The Wheel of Time story begins in a simple farm town so its pretty mundane!.Www@QuestionHome@Com