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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Shad Andrews</b>
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<p>In reply to: <a href="346.html">fantasy worlds</a> posted by Thomas Madden</b> on 18:43 4/2/02
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First, read a lot... and I don't mean read fantasy. Read history, basic science (geology and evolutionary biology are key), economics, military history, linguistics. If you want to make a world, you should know something about how this one works. Read books about other cultures-- Islam, China, Japan, the Incas, India; otherwise your world will be one more faux-Europe.</blockquote>
<p>I was wondering if you could recommend a good book on Geology. One that can help figure out continental lines and the landscapes of continents. I don't have anything at all like that right now but am trying to find the right book for Eumora.
<p>Thanks
<br>Shad
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>I don't know as much geology as I'd like! I picked up a lot from
old <b>Time-Life Library</b> books, as well as the introductory sections
of a few good atlases... one writer I can recommend is John McPhee,
who's written a few books on geology, e.g. <b>Assembling California</b>.
He's a journalist, so they don't so much teach geology as let you hang
out with a few talkative geologists.
<p>Oh, and read Jared Diamond's <b>Guns, Germs and Steel</b>. It's not
about geology, but it covers the <b>effects</b> of continents,
something you should know before designing any...
<p>If you want to model continental drift, I strongly recommend working
with globes, not flat paper. The continents of Almea can actually be
fit together like Pangea; I worked this out by drawing on a ball!
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