As I wrap up the Riven trilogy, an urban fantasy that borrows from steam punk and other, darker origins, I thought it would be a fun exercise (for myself if nobody else) to go back and look at how the idea for the story translated into a “world” – Riven is set in an alternate […]
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Riven launches, and building its world
Riven, a novel in which space wizards attempt to prevent the apocalypse by splitting the sun (not really. but eventually?), launches today. Like most fantasy or science fiction, it occupies a world that’s to some degree built upon reality, ideas that came before, and bunches of frenetic hallucinating that resulted in the setting for the […]