Catherine Nemeth
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
The Bastard has sorcerers, the Son has shamans, do the other gods have some extra-normal ability associated with them? If they do, have you thought out what they might be? Is there the possibility for other types of magic we haven’t seen yet?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not developed yet.
New developments are constrained, of course, by not contradicting prior ones. One way to sneak something new in might be to set it in a location the stories have not yet visited, of which there are potentially many.
I'd really love to have 5-gods-India Temple dancers, for example, but have never settled where to put an India analogue. Or a China one. Northern hemisphere, land mass quite disconnected from the southern cod-Europe, probably -- I very much fancy a very off-course and storm battered Chinese Imperial fleet limping into Visping Harbor about 1491-equivalent. Extra points if it is commanded by an eunuch admiral. So much xianxia tosteal be inspired by...
5GU Lithuania and points east are another possibility for interesting local magics. And the steppe lands also to the east, already established as existing, and contiguous -- lots of interesting early Church histories to draw on there, as the Greek church missionaries penetrated Rus, less well-known than the war/conquest histories of the region.
Many possibilities, no decisions. A story must pass through it for a setting to be generated. And I really can't make up stories in advance of making up stories.
Ta, L.
Not developed yet.
New developments are constrained, of course, by not contradicting prior ones. One way to sneak something new in might be to set it in a location the stories have not yet visited, of which there are potentially many.
I'd really love to have 5-gods-India Temple dancers, for example, but have never settled where to put an India analogue. Or a China one. Northern hemisphere, land mass quite disconnected from the southern cod-Europe, probably -- I very much fancy a very off-course and storm battered Chinese Imperial fleet limping into Visping Harbor about 1491-equivalent. Extra points if it is commanded by an eunuch admiral. So much xianxia to
5GU Lithuania and points east are another possibility for interesting local magics. And the steppe lands also to the east, already established as existing, and contiguous -- lots of interesting early Church histories to draw on there, as the Greek church missionaries penetrated Rus, less well-known than the war/conquest histories of the region.
Many possibilities, no decisions. A story must pass through it for a setting to be generated. And I really can't make up stories in advance of making up stories.
Ta, L.
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Laer Carroll
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you read the book about how Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues discovered a way to edit genes? It's titled The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. I've been reading follow-ups and it's not far-fetched to think that inside a decade or so we may be able to radically transform out bodies, even to changing our sex much more completely than the crude methods of today.
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