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  1. James Wilson

    Casual Sex in a medieval setting?

    By 70 sexes I mean the current list of sexes in addition to male and female. I’ve read the list, most of which go from ridiculous to preposterous but some people believe and so long as they don’t try to force me to believe, I don’t really care. You’re right that feudalism as a system has many...
  2. James Wilson

    Casual Sex in a medieval setting?

    Many good points, but it must be stated that the European medieval period is a very solid convention for fantasy in general, so what’s important about that is to not test the suspension of disbelief too much. If you push the idea of 70 sexes that is current in some places today backward into a...
  3. Stories of the Sundered Spheres

    The Lost Daughter (Part 3)

    She stooped and entered, her light stabbing before her. The tunnel led straight for almost fifty feet before intersecting crosswise another even shorter tunnel. She grimaced and tried to see what each tunnel held, but her light could not reach far enough. She took the left-hand tunnel first...
  4. Stories of the Sundered Spheres

    The Lost Daughter (Part 2)

    Her open eye saw white and purple phantoms everywhere, and she resisted the temptation to open her left. She scarcely noticed that the temperature had changed dramatically; she shivered before it dawned on her that she felt chilly. She waited, just inside, as the light phantoms faded, and...
  5. The Lost Daughter (Part 1)

    The Lost Daughter (Part 1)

    The unmerciful sun made the valley floor shimmer and dance. She wiped the sweat from her brow, and winced at the pain in her sunburnt shoulders. The burn made the slightest wrinkling of the skin beyond mere discomfort. Her knees hurt even worse, burned almost purple. Exposed by her short...
  6. Stories of the Sundered Spheres

    Stories of the Sundered Spheres

    In addition to novels I have written a few short stories set in the world of the Sundered Spheres, so I thought I might share a few of them, as they are unlikely ever to be published on their own. Please enjoy! And if you have comments, be brutal. I can take it.
  7. James Wilson

    Alien Planet Fantasy Worlds

    Thing is, there are few enough books with an Elf or a Dwarf as the protagonist. Part of Tolkien's genius was setting the Hobbits, the actual normal humans, in a world of legend, so that we mere mortals can appreciate that world. Hobbits are intelligible, as Elrond or Gandalf are not, and even...
  8. James Wilson

    Alien Planet Fantasy Worlds

    I haven’t come close to it yet, but I think a truly alien world as a fantasy setting could become the apotheosis of fantasy. It’s important in fantasy to not go too far afield because belief has to be suspended, not outraged. Somebody with the right talent could make a fully alien world and...
  9. James Wilson

    Weapon and Character Matching Query

    Edward I Longshanks started trying to outlaw all sport except the longbow, and English longbows were the key to the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers in 1346 and 1356. Edward III was Longshanks grandson so the edicts were effective enough to give the English a lot of expert...
  10. James Wilson

    What do you base your world's Religion on?

    I start with the cosmology and then design the religions to fit. While there are several religions based on lies, most are set around real deities that can influence the world as much through the cosmology as through prophets and disciples. I very specifically kept real religions out of it...
  11. James Wilson

    Science Fantasy

    While my work so far wouldn’t be considered science fantasy, it does have that potential because in the Sundered Spheres magic IS science and technology. In the as yet unpublished novel Heart of Flint two characters from Earth meet and the elder tells the younger that the world they’re in has...
  12. James Wilson

    How many people had pieces inspired by a dream?

    The monsters in my book Fortunes Rising came from a dream I had in 2005. I woke up shivering and wrote descriptions and sketched them quickly. They were all a bit Lovecraftian, and let me assure you that a dream where you don’t realize it’s a dream those kind of monsters are SCARY! I tried to...
  13. James Wilson

    Greetings from the Sundered Spheres

    Hi! My name is James Wilson, and I’m thinking about using a different version of my name because it’s so common in English. It’s even on the Declaration of Independence! I used to have a poster of the Declaration on my wall and I had several of my nieces and nephews convinced that I had...
  14. James Wilson

    Novels of the Sundered Spheres

    I finished my first novel at 16, and have written 23 so far. Several of them will never be seen by any other human being, but some make me rather proud. I have three novels on Amazon: The Long Escape (Common Thieves Book 1) Parvana Bolour has a forbidden desire, to escape from her life of...
  15. James Wilson

    How can I make a racially separated world that isn't racist?

    I agree completely, but it has to be learned. It’s no easy matter to overcome the prejudice one absorbs with mother’s milk. It’s one reason I love a particular scene in ‘Rosewood’. The boy whose dad made him watch them throwing bodies into a pit is running away and when his dad objects that...
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