Re: Time on Fantasy worlds

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:50:59 +0000 (UTC), "Mary K. Kuhner"
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rec.arts.sf.composition:

The setting of my fantasy WIS has five seasons rather than
four.

_Rats and Gargoyles_ has five points of the compass, and
they're still 90 degrees apart. After that having five
seasons is nothing!

It seems to me very natural that different cultures might
divide up the seasons differently. The climate in some of
the places where I've lived doesn't really divide the year
into four seasons, and that's just within the continental
U.S. Throw in the possibility of seasons determined in part
by some sort of ritual year, and you could have just about
anything from two up to some ill-defined practical limit.

[...]

Brian
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