Hey Blake, thanks for the thought. I'm familiar with Eberron, but it's not really the sort of thing I'm doing. When I talk about reading to learn about worldbuilding, I'm really headed more in the direction of reading books about craft (http://www.otherworlds.net/worldbld.htm) rather than other people's fiction, though other people's fiction is hugely instructive.
If you dig deep worldbuilding and you dig Eberron and D&D, then you ought to read Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora, which has some of the deepest, strongest worldbuilding I've ever seen. Lynch is a game designer and his experience tells in the narrative. The book'sa helluva good read and completely immersive. Someone else whose work includes impressive, inventive worldbuilding is jaylake. Yes, he's a friend, but that doesn't lessen the power of the invention in his novels. You ought to check out Trial of Flowers or Mainspring (the latter of which has made it to the preliminary Nebula ballot).
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Date: Fri, Jan. 11th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)If you dig deep worldbuilding and you dig Eberron and D&D, then you ought to read Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora, which has some of the deepest, strongest worldbuilding I've ever seen. Lynch is a game designer and his experience tells in the narrative. The book'sa helluva good read and completely immersive. Someone else whose work includes impressive, inventive worldbuilding is