Dispatches from the Front – Review of The World Until Yesterday
Review of The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond J. Comer Science fiction authors create fictional worlds. In fact, this is a major focus of our field. Examples of intriguing fictional worlds include de Camp’s Krishna, le Guin’s Gethen, the huge structures imagined by Larry Niven and Bob Shaw, and the World of Tekumel, the lifework of Phil Barker. All of these have been used as settings for adventure stories and novels, and many fictional societies inhabit each one. In all these places (and most other fantasy worlds) there are many small-scale or “traditional” societies: groups of people subsisting by … Read more