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The neat thing then, about the Fred Saberhagen books is that the first two books can be viewed as merely back story to the newer ones which are set in a roughly contemporary time of the writing:
The Dracula Tape
The Holmes-Dracula File
An Old Friend of the Family (1979)
Thorn (1980)
Dominion (1982)
A Matter of Taste (1990)
A Question of Time (1992)
Seance for a Vampire (1994)
A Sharpness on the Neck (1996)
A Coldness in the Blood (2002)
Susan Cooper's _Dark is Rising_ Pentalogy is also roughly contemporary in time setting.
Divers Down! is set in the '70s of its writing, so may pass muster --- again I'd strongly suggest getting the MP3s, burning them to a CD and listening to them on a family trip.
Other things to try:
Roger Zelazny's _A Dark Travelling_ (parallel worlds w/ a witch and a werewolf) also possibly _Changeling_ and _Madwand_ (a wizards child is brought to a near-future earth, then goes back to the land of his origin)
Higson's ``Young James Bond'' books --- also available as audio books for your holiday travelling
Urban fantasy, especially things by Charles de Lint or from the Ace Fairy Tales series --- esp. the collections _Borderlands_ and _Bordertown_ as well as Jane Yolen's _Briar Rose
William
Last edited by WillAdams; 12-06-2010 at 02:04 PM.
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