Re: LotR is IMO without merit

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:30:20 -0700, Kurt Busiek <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 2008-07-15 15:10:55 -0700, Patrick Baldwin <pax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Now I'm wondering if all those shared world anthologies I
used to like so much (Thieves World, Liavek, etc.) didn't
have any guidelines either, and how the hell could anyone
keep anything straight.

I'm sure some did and some didn't, but coordination would have been
much easier, because there are so few creators involved by comparison.

Plus, it's easier for a contributor to one of those to read everything
set in that world than it is for someone to do the same for Marvel or
DC's universes.

But I'd guess, at minimum, most of those worlds had maps...

Um... not all of them, and some authors (e.g., Gene Wolfe)
deliberately went off the edge of the map so as to not be constrained
by such details.




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