This is really most interesting to me. I'm about 2/3 of the way through
an S.F. novel whose theme is an alternative economy to the ones we've
seen so far. I didn't realize that focusing on how people earn their
money would be of interest. Cool.
Lesley Hall wrote:
>
> Re lack of sound economic substructure in fantasy worlds: see Diana
> Wynne-Jones's hilarious 'The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land', which is also
> scathing about the non-functional eco-systems
> Lesley
> Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
>
> Debra Euler wrote
> As an editor (assistant, anyway), I read so many
> manuscripts and published books, in both the fantasy and SF genres,
> where the writer came up with a lovely original conceit , but could
> only come up with a world where no one or no society could support
> themselves. It drives me bonkers! One of the current World Fantasy
> Award nominees is in this category. I'm not saying that every short
> story or even every novel has to go into exhaustive detail about
> economics, but if you're going to postulate a world where it is
> winter all the time, I'm going to wonder what people eat!
>
> Debra Euler
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