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Joel Shepherd's "A Brief History of Lenayin" is a fascinating look at the world-building that went into novel, SASHA: http://bit.ly/4dwZel 29 days ago |
Pyr-o-mania — ... applies to those living beneath good kings and bad kings alike. George RR Martin is one fantasy author who grasps this extremely well in ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. But a lot of fantasy, sadly I think, tends to swallow the propaganda whole, because the propaganda is pretty. Perhaps this just goes to illustrate that there is a statue of limitations on the offense caused by nasty political systems. Fantasy writers glorifying Nazism would get into trouble. Feudalism, not so much. And yes, I am just stirring. ...
Joel Shepherd on the Political System in Sasha
Grasping for the Wind —
Joel Shepherd writes at length about creating the land of Lenayin in his newest novel Sasha (my review). It is interesting to see how he wanted to play with the tropes of medieval fantasy, especially the political system and its effect on culture.
…unlike so many peoples in so many fantasy novels, Lenays couldn’t give a pile of horse manure about nobility, rank, status, or any of the sort. Lenays achieve status amongst their peers by being upstanding individuals…
I was interested as I wrote Sasha that there weren’t ...
SF Tidbits for 11/2/09
SF Signal —
... Halloween Giveaways (ends on November 3!). New Awards For SF&F Translated Into English Launched. Crossed Genres' Issue 12 (LGBTQ) has been released! (via Cheryl Morgan) Crossed Genres anthology pre-order. The second Interfictions auction! 2010 Xatafi-Cyberdark Awards. 2010 Grands Prix de l'Imaginaire Winners.Articles Joel Sheperd on A Brief History of Lenayin. Rich Horton's Summary: Asimov's, 2009. Cheryl Morgan on ...
A Brief History of Tanusha
Pyr-o-mania —
Following on from my world-building piece about ‘Sasha’, I thought I’d do something similar for the ‘Cassandra Kresnov Series’. Obviously there’s a fair few scientific improbabilities in Cassandra’s world, starting with Earthlike planets of roughly similar gravity, atmosphere, etc. My technical excuse is that the primary scientific improbability (faster than light travel) gives humanity such a wide range that even if such worlds are a million to one, humanity now has access to tens of millions of stars, so logically there are quite a few million-to-one ...
