Svetoslav
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just bought the three Penric novellas and I cannot wait to return to that strange upside-down medieval Europe! Do we have maps for the locations or at least some background info about the places/events from history that inspired the world-building for the novellas?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I believe the first two Chalion novels include maps, but only of the Ibran peninsula where those books take place. I didn't make more than a penciled note-sketch map for The Hallowed Hunt (though you can think "medieval Germany" as a shorthand for the Weald), nor for the Penric tales so far. (Though you can think "medieval Switzerland" for the first two stories.) Don't go overboard trying to draw parallels with our-world history and geography, though. The inspirations are fluid.
Or, I see, we have the Ibran maps up at dendarii.com --
http://www.dendarii.com/map.html
My nonfiction e-book Sidelines: Talks and Essays has iirc one or two earlier pieces that address the Five Gods Universe. Or there might be something in the mass of author interviews also linked at the wiki, but heaven knows where. Anything Chalion-pertinent would likely have been done around 2001 - 2005.
For other stories in that universe you'd likely want to start with The Curse of Chalion -- the author's note in the back of the Penric e-novellas has more particulars.
Ta, L.
Or, I see, we have the Ibran maps up at dendarii.com --
http://www.dendarii.com/map.html
My nonfiction e-book Sidelines: Talks and Essays has iirc one or two earlier pieces that address the Five Gods Universe. Or there might be something in the mass of author interviews also linked at the wiki, but heaven knows where. Anything Chalion-pertinent would likely have been done around 2001 - 2005.
For other stories in that universe you'd likely want to start with The Curse of Chalion -- the author's note in the back of the Penric e-novellas has more particulars.
Ta, L.
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