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Putting the Fact in Fantasy
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A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right
Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history and cultures of our own world, which serve as a jumping-off point for more inspired and convincing fantasy.
Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history and cultures of our own world, which serve as a jumping-off point for more inspired and convincing fantasy.
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“4.0 - I think this book does a great job of getting you a bit of information to get started, and then point you in the right direction to continue your own research. There are short essays and advice from experts in all different types of fields that may be relevant to worldbuilding or fantasy. From a whole section on horses, to food, weapons/fighting, philosophy, history, and more, these experts give you a breakdown of what is commonly done incorrectly in fantasy writing and how to amend it in your own work.
Even though I’m someone who has only really dipped into fantasy writing for shorter works, there were a lot of things discussed in these essays that I was already aware were things to consider when writing in the genre, but even though these were familiar topics, they weren’t “old news.” Each niche expert provided new insights or new perspectives on how each element could work (or not work) in a story, and although they were adamant about wanting writers to be accurate and align with our natural world, many also explained that these accuracies could coincide with magic or other fantasy elements and mesh together into something new, but still familiar. That’s one of the things I really appreciated; each essay felt like the expert saying “hey, don’t do these things because they’re wrong and inaccurate” but rather than just leaving it there, they create solutions: “this is how to correct these misconceptions, and this is a potential way you could incorporate it into your work.”
I think this is a great book to have on your shelf as a reference and starting place. Obviously, more research will need to be done than what it provided within this text, but it gives you a base line knowledge on numerous different subjects that you then can grow in the ways you need to by researching your main focuses on your own. If you’re looking for something on how to actually write fantasy, that’s not really this book’s job. This is more of a reminder and reference on how to be accurate in fantasy to strengthen your world. If that’s what you’re looking for, then I think this is a great book to gain diet information and discover what pathways you need to explore next for your work.”
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About Dan Koboldt
Dan Koboldt is a prinicipal investigator for Nationwide Children's Hospital and an assistant professor of pediatrics for The Ohio State University. Also a science fiction and fantasy writer, Koboldt is the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction and the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy and the Build-a-Dragon Sequence.
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