fantasy novels lean on clones of IRL cultures so much because inventing folk knowledge of a culture unlike your own is a staggering cognitive feat, @StevenBrust is either good at it or fakes it well using Magyarisms, the other ones i can think of are LeGuin, Wolfe, and Jemisin
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Replying to @chaosprime @StevenBrust
What by LeGuin are you thinking of? Earthsea just brownwashed the Irish.
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Replying to @rhoark @StevenBrust
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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