Help me, Obi-Wan Livejournal...

[hawkwing_lb]

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

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

(Or two.)

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[txanne.livejournal.com]

Dragaera. The Homelanders who came over to Damar and seized everything they could.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

...How did I manage to forget that Vlad Taltos lives in an Empire? Honestly. My brain.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Your brain is full of other things. Mine is currently empty.

[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 )

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Um...does Númenor count? Or Gondor? Probably not. I wonder if McKillip or Diana Wynne Jones wrote any empires...I can't remember ATM.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

*counts Gondor*

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

*fixes comment*

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Gosh, ya think? I dunno...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

<3

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

The Empire of the Sun? Cetaganda? Melnibone?

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

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Cetaganda I know. The other two - one is Wolfe, yes? But who is Melnibone?

[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.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I have never read any Moorcock. Though I have Gloriana upon my over-stocked TBR shelf.

[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.

[clarentine]

Amber and the Courts of Chaos. Troia.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Troia also I know not. (In fact, I will have to do some google-fu to find the author.)

(Thanks.)

[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.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Oh. I read those. Good stuffs, indeed.

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

[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!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Too many names. :)

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Dune. Followed by Star Wars.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

The Malazan Empire. You've already got Dragaera. Then the Wasps in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt books.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

How did I manage to forget the Malazan Empire? Thanks.