Question for my readers

[fayanora]

I'm writing my third Nokwahl novel, and I have a character in the prologue who is living in Africa. It is 3231 AD, and in that future, Africa is a developed continent free from the kind of strife that currently plagues it, because all of Earth is under one government and, well, it's over 1000 years in the future. I'm trying to figure out what

Comments

[baron_waste]

In a case like that, discard the names. It's not 'Africa,' with all that implies - which isn't good, 'World Government' notwithstanding - it's a continent with specific land forms. Turn your globe upside down - 'north' is now 'south.'

Now, on this Earth-like world, where would she be? At the 'southern' end, dominated by a huge desert but adjacent to a major inland ocean with thriving commerce? At the equator, in rot-jungle conditions? At the 'northern' extremity, with high desert again but straddling one of the world's major shipping lanes between two major oceans?

If - as is obvious! - your world bears no relation to present-day reality, then disregard the present day and look at the situation anew.

[fayanora]

Good point. Thanks!