Fully agree. Someone pointed me toward Brust two months ago and I can't put his stuff down. The plots are pretty standard fantasy stuff, but the characters are good and the worlds are enthralling.
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lol keep going, there is some... experimentation with plot in your future
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Understatement of the cycle.
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“Wait, we’re using *what* style of storytelling this time??” Though I loved both “The One That Was A Laundry List” and “The One Where The Character Sat In Front Of A Window The Whole Book”. ;)
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What by LeGuin are you thinking of? Earthsea just brownwashed the Irish.
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oh damn, shots fired i was thinking of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed (fantasy, sf, potato, antimatter reactor) and the broad cultural inventiveness in The Compass Rose
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Still, it should be possible if someone were to set their mind to it and focus long-term on the synthesis
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yeah but i dare you to say "focus long-term on the synthesis" to your editor
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How about Delaney?
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man i haven't read him in so long but my gut says yes
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Stars in my pocket like grains of sand. Totally worth a reread.
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The issue is that it's really hard to avoid charges of cultural appropriation when you do this.
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just gotta use dead cultures i think
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Or cultures you're part of; see Elizabeth Boyer's fantasies based on Icelandic myths.
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For a truly spectacular job of inventing a folk culture, there's this: http://bestfantasybooks.com/blog/review-a-saga-of-the-reindeer-people-by-megan-lindholm/ …
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Harry Harrison's Eden series is great too for that too.
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How many toos can I shoehorn in a sentence?
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JM McDermott's Dogsland trilogy I think pulls this off. Some Kij Johnson shorts too. It's not the flashy stuff but the solidity.
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