Re: Fantasy Books not set in pseudo-Europe

In article <438709f0.6472691@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Johnston
<rgorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joust surprised me.

Author?

> But it is actually quite middle eastern, with nice
> touches like the little funeral shrines where you leave little clay
> statues to provide the ancestor with slaves in the afterlife

Neat.

There are lots of such little touches, some but not all specific to
pre-Islamic times, in Joyce Ballou Gregorian's Tredana trilogy,
if you'll allow me to repeat myself. If you're specifically
looking for this sort of thing and haven't read those, start looking.
<The Broken Citadel> and <Castledown> are moderately easy to find,
<The Great Wheel> moderately hard.

There's a whole entry in the <Encyclopedia of Fantasy> about
"Arabian Fantasy", though for info on fantasy *from* Arabia
you have to go to the entries on the 1001 Nights and on "Persia"
(sorry, but that's how things worked out!). I'm not going to
go consult those entries and post a long post without someone
actually saying it would be helpful, but Esther Friesner, for
example, wrote four OK novels set in a thinly disguised Sinbadland.
(Warning, though, they form a sequence that far as I can tell
won't end. You're not left wondering about the fates of
individual characters, but I *think* I remember an overarching
plot of some sort that isn't resolved.)

Konrad Gaertner mentioned two books by Martha Wells. I'm not sure
what, if anything, in our history <City of Bones> is based on;
<Wheel of the Infinite> is clearly based on traditional Southeast
Asia, Buddhist variety.

Fantasy rooted in no particular Earth historical culture is not,
I think, terribly uncommon [1], though it doesn't grow on trees. But
I'm not going there right now.

Joe Bernstein

[1] No, I don't mean stuff that just renders whatever its model is
badly. Shame on you.

--
Joe Bernstein, writer joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
<http://www.panix.com/~josephb/> "She suited my mood, Sarah Mondleigh
did - it was like having a kitten in the room, like a vote for unreason."
<Glass Mountain>, Cynthia Voigt
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