![]() ![]() The distinctiveness of The Stillness lies in its geology like Earth, this world is invisibly dictated by plate tectonics, except that The Stillness is far more geologically kinetic, replete with earthquakes and volcanoes. There are complex human societies that imitate our own, with industry, divisions of labor, governance and even prejudices that feel familiar to anyone who can read a book in English. The first book, The Fifth Season, offers up three different characters each struggling to survive in a world called The Stillness. Several of them, but these basic tenets of fantasy storytelling are always The genreās undisputed classics (A Song of Ice and Fire, for example) subvert ![]() Writers tinker with these bedrock tropes and many of Individual agency of the hero (or heroes) and the structural determinism of Vocabulary to emphasize those differences) and a persistent clash between the Strange world that parallels our own but has crucial differences (and a foreign Has a few sure beats: colliding stories of multiple point-of-view characters, a As with any other established genre, the epic fantasy novel ![]()
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