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...Although I can't honestly say you're my only hope.

Fantasy empires. What's the first one that leaps to mind?

(Or two.)

Date: 2010-11-15 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com
Dragaera. The Homelanders who came over to Damar and seized everything they could.

Date: 2010-11-15 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
...How did I manage to forget that Vlad Taltos lives in an Empire? Honestly. My brain.

Date: 2010-11-15 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com
Your brain is full of other things. Mine is currently empty.

Date: 2010-11-15 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
In that case, does any other empire come to mind? I swear I'm forgetting them all.

(I remember the historical ones. Unto gibbering, I do. :P )

Date: 2010-11-15 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com
Um...does NĂºmenor count? Or Gondor? Probably not. I wonder if McKillip or Diana Wynne Jones wrote any empires...I can't remember ATM.

Date: 2010-11-15 10:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
*counts Gondor*

Somehow, I imagine Tolkien was exposed at some point to Gibbons' Decline and Fall...

*fixes comment*

Date: 2010-11-15 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] txanne.livejournal.com
Gosh, ya think? I dunno...

Date: 2010-11-15 10:06 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-11-16 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etumukutenyak.livejournal.com
The Empire of the Sun? Cetaganda? Melnibone?

I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting...

Date: 2010-11-16 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
Cetaganda I know. The other two - one is Wolfe, yes? But who is Melnibone?

Date: 2010-11-16 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etumukutenyak.livejournal.com
Michael Moorcock, the Elric series. You've never read any Elric? Last Lord of Melnibone', the albino sorcerer with the demon sword that steals souls? Hm.

Date: 2010-11-16 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
I have never read any Moorcock. Though I have Gloriana upon my over-stocked TBR shelf.

Date: 2010-11-16 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etumukutenyak.livejournal.com
Well. It's probably best described as your typical overblown 70s Grand High Alternative SF, with dark moody self-flagellating characters in a post-apocalyptic setting. Oh, and the protagonist is reborn as different characters in other series, so you could go on Forever.

Date: 2010-11-16 02:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clarentine
Amber and the Courts of Chaos. Troia.

Date: 2010-11-16 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
Troia also I know not. (In fact, I will have to do some google-fu to find the author.)

(Thanks.)

Date: 2010-11-16 05:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clarentine
Sarah Monette, her Melusine four-book series. (What is the 4 equivalent of trilogy? Quadrology?) Great writing, fascinating characters, even to the final book.

Date: 2010-11-16 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
Oh. I read those. Good stuffs, indeed.

But the name, it rang no bell. I must reread!

Date: 2010-11-16 06:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clarentine
I had to pick up the book and look it up myself, because while I remembered the major Troian players (the Bastion) I could not name the empire. *g* And, actually, the one I was after was Felix's sun-eyed people, and I never did locate their name!

Date: 2010-11-16 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
Too many names. :)

Date: 2010-11-16 11:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] anghara.livejournal.com
Dune. Followed by Star Wars.

Date: 2010-11-17 10:10 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-11-17 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com
The Malazan Empire. You've already got Dragaera. Then the Wasps in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt books.

Date: 2010-11-17 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com
How did I manage to forget the Malazan Empire? Thanks.

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