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I don't know how choate these thoughts will be, but let's try. So, there's urban fantasy, a genre I am aware of but not steeped in. Fairies or wizards or vampires, usually living in the dark corners of something like the modern world. "Buffy", Neverwhere, The Gypsy, Agyar, most magical girl anime (Sailor Moon et al.), World of Darkness RPGs, etc. Sometimes the supernatural comes into the open, like Anita Blake or Sunshine.
I know of one example of 'urban fantasy' of the past: the series starting with Midnight Never Come, with a faerie court living under Elizabethan (and later) London.
But how about the future? If we can have vampires lurking around the modern era, why not in a future society? Captain Kirk and Vampires ('real' ones, not the salt kind). Captain Janeway and magical girls. Well, there are some practical problems, like anticipated future surveillance, but still, for a lot of beings with access to some sot of Otherspace and/or camera-fuzzing magic, that's not that big a problem.
So now I'll list what I know that sort of fits this, in various ways.
The most obvious is "To The Stars", set around 2450 CE of the Madoka universe, where magical girls have been covert until the last 20 years, and the fic is heavily about both magical girl society and the SFnal society they live in.
Sailor Moon itself has that Crystal Neo-Tokyo that Usagi rules over 1000 years in the future. I don't know much about it though.
There's a fanfic I didn't read much of, blending Fate/stay night with Macross Frontier, and Emiya Shirou on the Frontier shortly before it runs into the Vajra aliens. He's a mage in secret, so it fits.
"Buffy" had Fray, the Slayer of the year 3000 or maybe 2200, vampires mistaken for just another mutant, and genuine 100% magical demons not being as weird as the mutant fish-boss Fray works for.
Vampire Hunter D is kind of like this, though post-apocalyptic in feel. Vampires existed, came out, took over the world and ruled it as Nobles, then got overthrown? and D runs around killing monsters for the sake of farmers who are homesteading it with solar panels and force fields and laser home defense systems.
Nanoha takes place in our time, but achieves a similar feel by switching place: we start in Tokyo as another secretive magical girl thing, and end up in a sort of magical Starfleet in other dimsnesions? worlds? Instead of To the Stars' immortal MGs living into the future where they work in the military, our heroines simply emigrate to a more advanced and technomagically open world where they work in the military.
Vampire Winter is in my notes, though a bit different: WWIII happens, nuclear winter happens, a vampire discovers he can go out in the attenuated daylight (yay!) but that this puts the sustainability of his food supply at risk (uh-oh), and acts on that.
Part of the interest is in magic and high tech interacting, so I'll mention Sunshine, which has a hilarious line about master vampires who can't go out any more using kickass VR rigs instead. And using e-mail a lot. There's also Shadowrun, at the tail end of what I'm thinking of.
I know of one example of 'urban fantasy' of the past: the series starting with Midnight Never Come, with a faerie court living under Elizabethan (and later) London.
But how about the future? If we can have vampires lurking around the modern era, why not in a future society? Captain Kirk and Vampires ('real' ones, not the salt kind). Captain Janeway and magical girls. Well, there are some practical problems, like anticipated future surveillance, but still, for a lot of beings with access to some sot of Otherspace and/or camera-fuzzing magic, that's not that big a problem.
So now I'll list what I know that sort of fits this, in various ways.
The most obvious is "To The Stars", set around 2450 CE of the Madoka universe, where magical girls have been covert until the last 20 years, and the fic is heavily about both magical girl society and the SFnal society they live in.
Sailor Moon itself has that Crystal Neo-Tokyo that Usagi rules over 1000 years in the future. I don't know much about it though.
There's a fanfic I didn't read much of, blending Fate/stay night with Macross Frontier, and Emiya Shirou on the Frontier shortly before it runs into the Vajra aliens. He's a mage in secret, so it fits.
"Buffy" had Fray, the Slayer of the year 3000 or maybe 2200, vampires mistaken for just another mutant, and genuine 100% magical demons not being as weird as the mutant fish-boss Fray works for.
Vampire Hunter D is kind of like this, though post-apocalyptic in feel. Vampires existed, came out, took over the world and ruled it as Nobles, then got overthrown? and D runs around killing monsters for the sake of farmers who are homesteading it with solar panels and force fields and laser home defense systems.
Nanoha takes place in our time, but achieves a similar feel by switching place: we start in Tokyo as another secretive magical girl thing, and end up in a sort of magical Starfleet in other dimsnesions? worlds? Instead of To the Stars' immortal MGs living into the future where they work in the military, our heroines simply emigrate to a more advanced and technomagically open world where they work in the military.
Vampire Winter is in my notes, though a bit different: WWIII happens, nuclear winter happens, a vampire discovers he can go out in the attenuated daylight (yay!) but that this puts the sustainability of his food supply at risk (uh-oh), and acts on that.
Part of the interest is in magic and high tech interacting, so I'll mention Sunshine, which has a hilarious line about master vampires who can't go out any more using kickass VR rigs instead. And using e-mail a lot. There's also Shadowrun, at the tail end of what I'm thinking of.