Via Neil Gaiman, I learn that:
- John Crowley (author of Little, Big)has a LiveJournal…
- … where he’s collecting suggestions for reference works for people seeking to invent interesting fantasy worlds…
- …and he’s come up with a great class exercise/ party game for the results:
Can’t do it for the upcoming class, but for a class in fantasy fiction what could be done is to print out these titles and others similar on separate cards,,and have each student pick two at random, and combine the central elements of each. North Korea under the Kims combined with voodoo and zombies. Or Indian Ocean dhows with the Art of Memory.
Now I want to read the first example… One of you literary types, get on it.