Putting the Fact in Fantasy, Dan Koboldt
Putting the Fact in Fantasy, Dan Koboldt
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Putting the Fact in Fantasy
Expert Advice to Bring Authenticity to Your Fantasy Writing

Author: Dan Koboldt, Scott Lynch

Narrator: Eunice Wong

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/03/2022


Synopsis

A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right

Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to the next level. Featuring some of the most popular articles from Dan Koboldt’s Fact in Fantasy blog as well as several never-before-seen essays, this book gives aspiring and established fantasy writers alike an essential foundation to the fascinating history and cultures of our own world, which serve as a jumping-off point for more inspired and convincing fantasy.

About The Author

Dan Koboldt is a prinicipal investigator for Nationwide Children's Hospital and an assistant professor of pediatrics for The Ohio State University. Also a science fiction and fantasy writer, Koboldt is the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction and the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy and the Build-a-Dragon Sequence.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Crystal

This gem of a book is packed with all sorts of great writing advice from 34 different authors to help writers build worlds that feel realistic. While it's billed as a book for fantasy authors, many historical fiction writers will also find the information within helpful. How to have realistic swordf......more

This book beats google hands-down for helping authors with necessary research. It's written for authors by authors, so they KNOW the details you need to be able to write something like an expert. Trust me, I've tried googling specialized vocabulary for everything from being a drummer to flying a pla......more

Este era un libro que prometía: científicos dando consejos sobre cómo los autores de fantasía podían mejorar sus historias y evitar muchos errores de novato. En lo que respecta a mí, de 50 artículos hubo un sólo artículo realmente bueno: Creando sistema políticos creíbles e interesantes, de Carrie C......more