Comments on: The Importance of Worldbuilding http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/ Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Heather http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Heather Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:20:04 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-820 Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series I think did a mgnificent job of worksbuilding, even if her editors/proofreaders needed to be shot (so many typos!). The stories themselves are great and so believable because her world is Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series I think did a mgnificent job of worksbuilding, even if her editors/proofreaders needed to be shot (so many typos!). The stories themselves are great and so believable because her world is

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]]> By: Laura Diamond http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Laura Diamond Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:14:47 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-818 LOVE, yes. I fell in love with Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace too. Fabulous, simply fabulous. Oh, I may have to read it again. LOVE, yes. I fell in love with Mary Doria Russell’s A Thread of Grace too. Fabulous, simply fabulous. Oh, I may have to read it again.

]]> By: JJ http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-817 JJ Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:48:17 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-817 Laura: I love, love, LOVE Mary Doria Russell (although I haven't read the sequel to THE SPARROW). LOVE. Laura: I love, love, LOVE Mary Doria Russell (although I haven’t read the sequel to THE SPARROW). LOVE.

]]> By: R.J. Anderson http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-816 R.J. Anderson Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:42:11 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-816 D.M. Cornish's MONSTER BLOOD TATTOO books feature, to my mind, the best worldbuilding since Tolkien. Cornish pays the same sort of loving attention to even the incidental details of his (quite original and surprising) world, as well as creating his own vocabulary to describe it (the glossary in the back of <i>Foundling</i> takes up fully a quarter of the book). It took me a while to get into the series because the language *is* so unusual and it does start off slowly (as LotR does, for that matter) but once I did, I was more fully immersed in Rossamund's world than I have been in any invented realm since Mervyn Peake's <i>Gormenghast</i>. And now I can't wait for the third book in the series! D.M. Cornish’s MONSTER BLOOD TATTOO books feature, to my mind, the best worldbuilding since Tolkien. Cornish pays the same sort of loving attention to even the incidental details of his (quite original and surprising) world, as well as creating his own vocabulary to describe it (the glossary in the back of Foundling takes up fully a quarter of the book).

It took me a while to get into the series because the language *is* so unusual and it does start off slowly (as LotR does, for that matter) but once I did, I was more fully immersed in Rossamund’s world than I have been in any invented realm since Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast. And now I can’t wait for the third book in the series!

]]> By: Laura Diamond http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-814 Laura Diamond Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:41:46 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-814 Awesome list! I couldn't agree more! If I may, I think anything written by Mary Doria Russell (I'm a big fan!), Charles de Lint, Cormac McCarthy, and Somerset Maugham show great world-building too. Oh, and A Clockwork Orange--it not only had world-building, but it had word-building too! I guess I could go on and on, but these are a few of my super-fav's! Awesome list! I couldn’t agree more! If I may, I think anything written by Mary Doria Russell (I’m a big fan!), Charles de Lint, Cormac McCarthy, and Somerset Maugham show great world-building too. Oh, and A Clockwork Orange–it not only had world-building, but it had word-building too! I guess I could go on and on, but these are a few of my super-fav’s!

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-813 uberVU - social comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:09:13 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-813 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by sjaejones: Epic post about worldbuilding in which I relay Suzanne Collins' research into Panem: http://ow.ly/JUlW Also, I reveal the scope of my nerd.... Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Twitter by sjaejones: Epic post about worldbuilding in which I relay Suzanne Collins’ research into Panem: http://ow.ly/JUlW Also, I reveal the scope of my nerd….

]]> By: Kristan http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Kristan Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:51:23 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-812 Probably to a lesser extent, but what about The Secret Life of Bees? Or Beloved? They both pulled me into new settings (and time periods), and Beloved even had some supernatural going on. I'm currently reading 1984 and the world-building is undeniable, but holy cow, it's a slog for me! (I fear that I'm getting lazy, preferring to read contemporary English because it's just so much easier for my pea brain to process.) Only vaguely related, NPR names its top YA books of 2009: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121173632&ft=1&f=1032 Probably to a lesser extent, but what about The Secret Life of Bees? Or Beloved? They both pulled me into new settings (and time periods), and Beloved even had some supernatural going on.

I’m currently reading 1984 and the world-building is undeniable, but holy cow, it’s a slog for me! (I fear that I’m getting lazy, preferring to read contemporary English because it’s just so much easier for my pea brain to process.)

Only vaguely related, NPR names its top YA books of 2009: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121173632&ft=1&f=1032

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]]> By: Najela http://sjaejones.com/blog/2009/the-importance-of-worldbuilding/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Najela Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://sjaejones.com/?p=3133#comment-810 I agree. I thought I could get away without world-building, but then I realized that I couldn't. I think the best thing about world building is creating a world so vivid you can revisit at any time with different characters and different story lines. Tamora Pierce is a really good world builder. She wrote many stories in her world with different characters in different time periods and different histories of the world. I love it because each book we get to learn how that event shaped the events in the next book. I agree. I thought I could get away without world-building, but then I realized that I couldn’t. I think the best thing about world building is creating a world so vivid you can revisit at any time with different characters and different story lines.

Tamora Pierce is a really good world builder. She wrote many stories in her world with different characters in different time periods and different histories of the world. I love it because each book we get to learn how that event shaped the events in the next book.

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