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My impression of NK Jemisin’s World Building in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.

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 N.K. Jemisin brings many tools to her world-building, especially a focus on how power is distributed and contested by the clans of her peoples. The manifestation of power is evident throughout The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, but one illustration in particular is the division of nobles in the Consortium. Yeine comments on the inequity of their distribution, […]

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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years. History and culture written in thread.

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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland BarberMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This really helped consolidate my knowledge of the development of human civilization. Its use of language along with archeological evidence reinforces the research I’ve pursued on language origins. As a world builder of

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Tarn – First Post

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https://www.worldanvil.com/w/tarn-tarnhead Tarn Created by tarnhead Tarn is a fantasy world whose various indigenous people are being observed and eventually colonized by “extratarnials” (ETs). For now, the ETs are content with small interventions, almost never appearing in physical form, so these instances are woven into the fabric of the mythology of the Tarnials. Several times in

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Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha LeeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Brilliant story. The worldbuilding of Ninefox Gambit comes to fruition here. The story also packs a killer plot twist & reveal, though there is plenty of foreshadowing of the possibility, so it’s both surprising and inevitable. One of my favorite 2017 sci-fi novels. 🙂

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Lyza Is Really Turning the Corner – Keep Going, Girl – Bring This Home

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I think I’ve really turned the corner on this one. I cannot write it fast enough. It very simply flows and I just have to write it down. Character led, just like it’s supposed to be, and it’s filling an enormous void in my fantasy world. A history is being created. I’m very happy about

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