March to Other Worlds Day 21 The Book of Tales by William L. Hahn

March to Other Worlds Day 21 The Book of Tales by William L. Hahn

On a fundamental level, the March to Other Worlds is about the ability of an author to build credible worlds. That’s why I find this next pick so fascinating. William L. Hahn has written roughly a dozen books in his Lands of Hope—a fascinating fantasy realm in which the ethos of hope and despair contest with each other through the actions of legendary heroes of each ethos and modern day adventurers who carry on the struggle. After publishing several frankly astoundingly good novels, Hahn came out with his Book of Tales to show that he takes his world building a lot further than most writers do.

 

How else do you explain his decision to include a book of children’s stories that actually exist in his world—the sort of tales that parents tell their children at bedtime or by the hearthside. It’s a clever and very creative idea. Many of the stories read like Aesop’s Fables or Just So stories and deal with the animal world. Others are the sorts of stories people tell about the heroes of the past to teach moral lessons—sort of like George Washington and the cherry tree, or Abraham Lincoln and his penny. All of them are entertaining.

 

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