p-h-lee.bsky.social
please call me Lee.
i write fiction. mostly fantasy.
non-binary.
links to online / offline work here: https://p-h-lee.com/
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Out NOW:
An interview with @kerstinhall.bsky.social! We talk about her latest weird fantasy novel ASUNDER (out now from TorDotCom), about complex worldbuilding, and about how fantasy can be both fun and still address human social and political issues.
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thank you!
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(i used to be a game designer and i still get cranky about these topics sometimes.)
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there is exactly one author I know of outside of mystery-genre who does this well, and that's rosemary kirstein.
and, if you read her books, the stakes and context are _always_ clear. even when there are secret things behind the scenes, the basics (threat, stakes, character) remain clear.
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tension is created from knowledge of the context and stakes. hiding this knowledge from the reader robs your story of tension.
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sometimes people ask me about my fantasy world's geography and i don't know what to tell them.
i literally do not know more than what i wrote, and even that is inconsistent from character to character.
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very sweet to hear.
i must say, i do yearn for explication.
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(among other things)
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this is why you are a good agent.
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typo :(
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@wizardsvslesbians.bsky.social
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also if you are attending worldcon you should definitely nominate Asunder
torpublishinggroup.com/asunder/
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And not all grammatical gender is male/female! There's also human/non-human and similar systems.
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Very true!
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in general, the grammar of a language has very little to do with the culture of the people who speak it.
(i know. but its such efficient world-building. i know.)
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i spent this afternoon trying to determine if there was a "downmarket fiction" before concluding that there does not appear to be.
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it's okay to just do a short one because your brain is mush. we've all been there.
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(originally from, afaict: the-humdrum-gatsby.tumblr.com/post/8067990... )
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fyi, you can vote in the locus awards! anyone with an internet connection can.
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<3
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@p-h-lee.bsky.social's "The V*mpire," a knife-in-the-gut story about social media, abuse, and trans tumblr from 2014 (I had to read this one in snatches it was so visceral): reactormag.com/the-vampire-...