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It varies book to book, story to story, world to world. A lot of work had gone into the invention of Bas-Lag before I started writing Perdido Street Station, and for that book and the two that came after. In Embassytown and The City & the City, the process of world-creation was much more closely tied to, and inextricable from, the specific stories being written. It really depends on what I’m trying to do with each particular book. As a very general rule, I started off with greater desire to ‘precreate’ the worlds, and as I continue writing the settings, prose and narratives have become more linked. Again, that doesn’t preclude moving in other directions, but that’s sort of how I feel it’s been going.
Thanks for your answer. Sorry, I only just saw this now. I'd love to get into a heated debate on the linguistics of Embassytown now I've read the book, but I'm sure you have better things to do.
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It varies book to book, story to story, world to world. A lot of work had gone into the invention of Bas-Lag before I started writing Perdido Street Station, and for that book and the two that came after. In Embassytown and The City & the City, the process of world-creation was much more closely tied to, and inextricable from, the specific stories being written. It really depends on what I’m trying to do with each particular book. As a very general rule, I started off with greater desire to ‘precreate’ the worlds, and as I continue writing the settings, prose and narratives have become more linked. Again, that doesn’t preclude moving in other directions, but that’s sort of how I feel it’s been going.
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Thanks for your answer. Sorry, I only just saw this now. I'd love to get into a heated debate on the linguistics of Embassytown now I've read the book, but I'm sure you have better things to do.
