How To Use Your World

Fair warning: the next series of blog posts is going to be ass backward. Namely, I’m going to be talking about using the world you’ve built, then talking about worldbuilding. Confusing? Sure. But I write these things on the fly based on what’s on my mind in a particular week.

This week, I’m in the home stretch of reading Mainspring by Jay Lake . The thing about Mainspring is that it isn’t a bad book, it just isn’t a good book; and its sin is failure to make use of the amazing world that Lake cr...