This post continues on from this conversation, and this follow-up post of mine. The inciting spark, of course, was hawkwing_lb's comment: I'm beginning to think that writers of epic fantasy and SF should be required to learn about the anthropology of material culture.This is about transportation. It's a topic where I have a slight advantage when it comes to ( Read more... )

There will probably be more than one of these posts, since there are a variety of different topics which all end up tied in together. The original post of twitter which started all this off was hawkwing_lb's: I'm beginning to think that writers of epic fantasy and SF should be required to learn about the anthropology of material culture.This started quite a ( Read more... )

This began with a tweet by hawkwing_lb and went on from there. I have posted a transcript here, as everyone involved, including those like me who were mostly reading instead of tweeting didn't want to see it vanish into the aether of Twitter's supposed archives. I have done some light editing and made sure there were workable links to a couple of pieces rose_lemberg ( Read more... )