Ecology of Fantasy Worlds

Most of this was structured about the beasts. 

Like apex predators.  They tend to be rare, and not perpetually hungry.  In fact, they usually eat a meal and sleep it off for a while.

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New Worlds Order

A prolonged discussion of whether monocultures and single world governments were plausible.

No, mostly.

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The Magical Middle Class

Despite the title, this was about the lower classes as much as the middle classes -- the unglamorous work classes.

Urban fantasy has more, of course.  Though one panelist told of a work where we had a scene of peasant women working their fingers to the bone to make a blanket for the princess, and then the princess tore it to shreds -- to be sure, because it was a bribe to her to keep her quiet and out of the way, but still. . . . .

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