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(Ah, the joys of short-form wishlists for blood relations)
So far the worldbuilding I've been trying to work into Falcons' Feathers looks like it hasn't been flat-out wrong yet, which is nice. (I've been having to use more Mongol references than I'd prefer; the major reason I'm not using the Mongols is that when the Mongols and the Russians met--well. Inviting a steppe people in to help you beat up your city-state rivals was a longstanding tradition. It maaay backfire slightly when the steppe people you invite in are the Mongols' westernmost army. >.> Just possibly.) I'm not yet into the right period, though, so am hoping the trend's going to continue.
Read several fiction books lately, two Pratchetts (Raising Steam and Unseen Academicals, which is the one I misplaced the tab for) and Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, which I deeply enjoyed the plot and politics and character development of but have questions about some of the fundamental worldbuilding. It's worth checking out a copy if you like complex political machinations and subtle social cues in addition to airships and assassination plots.
So far the worldbuilding I've been trying to work into Falcons' Feathers looks like it hasn't been flat-out wrong yet, which is nice. (I've been having to use more Mongol references than I'd prefer; the major reason I'm not using the Mongols is that when the Mongols and the Russians met--well. Inviting a steppe people in to help you beat up your city-state rivals was a longstanding tradition. It maaay backfire slightly when the steppe people you invite in are the Mongols' westernmost army. >.> Just possibly.) I'm not yet into the right period, though, so am hoping the trend's going to continue.
Read several fiction books lately, two Pratchetts (Raising Steam and Unseen Academicals, which is the one I misplaced the tab for) and Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, which I deeply enjoyed the plot and politics and character development of but have questions about some of the fundamental worldbuilding. It's worth checking out a copy if you like complex political machinations and subtle social cues in addition to airships and assassination plots.
