So with
Citizen in the Wilds now in the revision process, I thought it might behoove me to take a look at some other fantasy literature, maybe examine what works and what doesn't. Since most of what I'm doing involves the defiance of most fantasy conventions, I'm curious if anything I'm aiming at hasn't already been hit on the mark by another, more prominent writer. For example, floating cities aren't anything new. Look no further than Dalaran in
World of Warcraft. However, I don't know how often the 'ruling power' in a given land has been one ruled by mages and defined by the use of magic - 'magocracy' is the term I've used previously. Everybody has elves in their stories, and most of the time they're dying out, but I'm curious as to how often they're shown as very upset at this state of affairs, rather than quietly accepting their fate and loading up on ships to sail into the West. That said, I own most of Tolkein's works, a full set of Narnia, and somewhere in this mess are my copies of
A Wrinkle In Time, a collection of
Conan stories and even
Eragon. I've taken
Tigana out of the library before and would do so again, mostly because I didn't finish it before returning it. What else would you recommend me to read, oh wise Internets?
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