Re: Time on Fantasy worlds

In article <1a0brbdj35edu.1q3dmshw53rk6$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Brian M. Scott <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:50:59 +0000 (UTC), "Mary K. Kuhner"
<mkkuhner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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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!

Yes, wasn't that odd? She never says so, but it slowly becomes
apparent....

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.

Anchorage, Alaska is acknowledged by its residents as having
five: winter, breakup, spring, summer, fall. No one will
call breakup "spring" because it's so dismally unspringlike.

I'm inclined to feel that Seattle also has five, but not the
same five: winter, spring, summer, autumn, and one that has no
local name. Dark, cool but not frosty, very wet, and bleak
with fallen leaves and toadstools. But this is more of a minority
view.

Berkeley, California has fewer than four. Some years only two,
cool-wet and warm-dry.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@xxxxxxxxxx
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