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Many great authors make or made use of the practice, to the point it becomes part of their style. Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, and Gene Wolfe are a few that make use of an antiquated and esoteric vocabulary. It can be challenging for the reader, but that's part of what these cats are/were...

Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" and "Lyonesse" series. He just turned 95 not too long ago.

I read it for the first time a few months ago, I came away thinking it pretty much deserves all the hype it gets. I had read Gene Wolfe's "Book of the Long Sun" a few times, and had really liked how he treated faith in those books, so I googled around looking for other sci-fi-ish works that...

I think it could be a neat idea, but would have to be executed very well for it to work right. It would definitely give one's writing a different look, sort of an experimental collage style with prose, poetry and play format dialogue stuff. The play format stuff would probably read very fast...

I was poking around and found this the other day, found a blog from an horse person about horses in fantasy fiction. Guess it just started, the first post is pretty decent. Words from Thin Air: Horses in Fiction--What Writers Get Wrong

There are also the Jack Vance/Frank Herbert solutions: Footnotes, appendices for longer ideas, disparate prologue pieces at the begining of chapters. If you combine these with other options like dialogue exposition the reader shouldn't be too overwhelmed with any one strategy for description of...