A companion volume to the Language Construction Kit, this book explains everything you need to know about creating your own world with its own geology, creatures, cultures, religions, technology, and styles of war- plus how to create maps, illustrations and 3-D models. An essential whether you're writing science fiction or fantasy, designing RPGs, creating movies or video games, or remodeling a spare asteroid.
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By Jeff
I am currently writing a fantasy novel set in multiple universes which I have created with this book. This was completely worth my money, for hardback and kindle version.
By Stormie
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The Good:
*This book has a lot of points to get you thinking about your world and help you work out what to do next. I particularly like the "What it was...what it is" exercise.
The Bad:
*The author spends a lot of time on the "right" way to make maps. The "right" way being satellite-style typographic maps. Telling anyone the "right" way to conduct their art rubs me the wrong way. My maps are done in the style of the cultures of the areas represented and that is what I need to see to fuel my creative processes. I bear no grudge against those who want highly realistic typographical maps, or simple pencil sketches, or anything else but the author could have been a little more thoughtful of others art styles.
*There's no table of contents or chapter breaks which makes finding a specific topic very hard. As I've read I've placed bookmarks at all the major chapter breaks to help myself along but it would have been nice to have that done for me.
*The author seems to assume that you are familiar with his writing and conlangs as he frequently uses words spelled out in his conscripts with no explanation (that I saw) as to how these are pronounced.
*The book is written from a decidedly evolutionary point of view with some odd little paragraphs "For Christians" (not quite sure what the deal is with that). Along that line, the whenever a negative example is needed the author seems to find something wrong with the writings of Tolkien. Not that Tolkien's writing is perfect, but the authors seems highly biased against him.
All in All:
For me this book was useful in getting my gears turning but there was a lot of skimming between the high points. It was worth the price on an ebook but not a hardcopy. Your mileage may vary.
*This book has a lot of points to get you thinking about your world and help you work out what to do next. I particularly like the "What it was...what it is" exercise.
The Bad:
*The author spends a lot of time on the "right" way to make maps. The "right" way being satellite-style typographic maps. Telling anyone the "right" way to conduct their art rubs me the wrong way. My maps are done in the style of the cultures of the areas represented and that is what I need to see to fuel my creative processes. I bear no grudge against those who want highly realistic typographical maps, or simple pencil sketches, or anything else but the author could have been a little more thoughtful of others art styles.
*There's no table of contents or chapter breaks which makes finding a specific topic very hard. As I've read I've placed bookmarks at all the major chapter breaks to help myself along but it would have been nice to have that done for me.
*The author seems to assume that you are familiar with his writing and conlangs as he frequently uses words spelled out in his conscripts with no explanation (that I saw) as to how these are pronounced.
*The book is written from a decidedly evolutionary point of view with some odd little paragraphs "For Christians" (not quite sure what the deal is with that). Along that line, the whenever a negative example is needed the author seems to find something wrong with the writings of Tolkien. Not that Tolkien's writing is perfect, but the authors seems highly biased against him.
All in All:
For me this book was useful in getting my gears turning but there was a lot of skimming between the high points. It was worth the price on an ebook but not a hardcopy. Your mileage may vary.
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