This review alone has me putting this on my to-read list.
Norse mythology is not one of my particular points of pedantry; my knowledge of it doesn't go all that much beyond your basic names-and-attributes primer with some Viking society trivia thrown in. But mythology, religion, culture, all of that in general -- the way it influences people bone-deep and soul-deep, and shapes their whole world, and the way different people are shaped differently -- that's what real worldbuilding is to me, because that's what real human worlds are, and so very few authors do it really convincingly. This sounds fabulous.
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Date: 2008-10-28 08:43 pm (UTC)Norse mythology is not one of my particular points of pedantry; my knowledge of it doesn't go all that much beyond your basic names-and-attributes primer with some Viking society trivia thrown in. But mythology, religion, culture, all of that in general -- the way it influences people bone-deep and soul-deep, and shapes their whole world, and the way different people are shaped differently -- that's what real worldbuilding is to me, because that's what real human worlds are, and so very few authors do it really convincingly. This sounds fabulous.