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New Worlds #3
New Worlds, Year Three: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding
Create a world of wonder and imagination . . . The boundless complexity of worldbuilding can create a daunting challenge for writers of science fiction and fantasy. In the third volume of the NEW WORLDS series, award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan provides not only the building blocks for creating a setting, but advice on exposition and other aspects of craft. Whether you need guidance on security or sanitation, demographics or demons or drugs, you’re sure to find inspiration here. This volume collects essays from the third year of the New Worlds Patreon.
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230 pages, Paperback
Published December 21, 2020
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Marie Brennan
174 books3,262 followersMarie Brennan a.k.a. M.A. Carrick
Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of The Mask of Mirrors, first in the Rook and Rose trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.
Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She recently misapplied her professors' hard work to Turning Darkness Into Light, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. As half of M.A. Carrick, she is also the author of The Mask of Mirrors, first in the Rook and Rose trilogy. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon.
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July 16, 2024
Eh, not my favourite entry so far but far from bad I'd say. I guess it's just a matter of preference
July 13, 2024
New Worlds, Year Three: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding - Marie Brennan
Rating: ★★★ ½
Award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan now offers her New World patrons monthly topic polls. These 53 essays were published each week between March 2019 and February 2020.
While this collection included some great essays, I enjoyed it a bit less than the first two volumes in this series. Some topics were very specialised (Locks… and How to Pick Them comes to mind) and there seemed to be less references to existing works throughout. My favourite essays were the two-parter on Exposition and The Map Is Not the Terrain. The essay about Plagues (published in July 2019) was oddly prescient.
Reading Journal Index: 2022-103
Rating: ★★★ ½
Award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan now offers her New World patrons monthly topic polls. These 53 essays were published each week between March 2019 and February 2020.
While this collection included some great essays, I enjoyed it a bit less than the first two volumes in this series. Some topics were very specialised (Locks… and How to Pick Them comes to mind) and there seemed to be less references to existing works throughout. My favourite essays were the two-parter on Exposition and The Map Is Not the Terrain. The essay about Plagues (published in July 2019) was oddly prescient.
“I’ve lost count of how many times now I’ve started to write an essay on a certain subject and realized halfway through that actually, I need to break it up into multiple sections.”
- Introduction
Reading Journal Index: 2022-103
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