what are your narrative fetishes? what kinds of stories do you tend to like reading?
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Replying to @thesublemon
good worldbuilding often gets me, a few small premises then well thought through in their consequences
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Replying to @allgebrah @thesublemon
most often seen in hard scifi but there's also hard fantasy like gladstone's three parts dead series (magic as contract law)
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Replying to @allgebrah @thesublemon
apart from that, the "fantastic tour de force" or what to call it where a world just gobbles up the protagonist (→Walter Moers)
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Replying to @allgebrah @thesublemon
e.g. in the City of Dreaming Books, the protag is dumped deep in a city-sized library and has to find his way out
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Replying to @allgebrah @thesublemon
just realized again how much this guy has influenced me, I wish his works were more of a thing in the anglospherepic.twitter.com/BTdf4LS4Xz
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Replying to @allgebrah
huh yeah i had never heard of him. are the translations good?
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no idea, I've only read him in the original. I've been trying to make anglo friends read it and report back, none so far
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