Future Fantasy

"Epic fantasy is mostly set in the past.  Urban fantasy is mostly set in the present.  What about the future?"

Well, obviously first off we quibbled with the description, since most epic fantasies are set in another world having no connection to our timeline.

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Here There Be Dragons: Map Making for Authors and Game Masters

which of course promptly ties every kind of world-building

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Right Triangles: Writing Love Triangles Without Cliches

Ah, the grand combination:  the girl has her choice and has to choose between two guys.

Usually it's the girl in the middle.

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The Economics of Fantasy Worlds

Unsurprisingly this often veered into SF as well.

One panelist defined it as how a society is structured to get goods produced and services performed.  We never really brought out the aspect of scarcity which is central to economics.

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