Answer the first

[sythyry]

moosl asks: I am an off-worlder and view your world sporadically. Where can one learn of your world succintly?

IC: I must admit that I have never, myself, left the World Tree, and I am not as familiar as I might be with whatever books may appear in offworld bookstores.

For that matter, do offworlds even use proper books? On the Water-Tree, evidently, there are speaking icicles used instead of books ... though, in other stories, someone does talk about "peeling the hero's hide off and using it to bind some low-grade pornography." Perhaps speaking icicles are sold in leather sheaths, I suppose.

Still, I daresay that you live in a somewhat more real universe than the Water-Tree. What do books look like there?

OOC: You can buy the World Tree book. The first half of it is a travelogue or fictional ethnography of the World Tree. The second half is the actual RPG rules. We did intend that the first half stand on its own, as a work of fictional nonfiction, and many non-gamers have enjoyed it as that.

Comments

Re: To put it as absurdly as possible...

[redbird]

The device described above does exist. But it's not the answer to your question.

In my world, books are flat and rectangular, usually taller than they are wide (if you're familiar with the Golden Ratio, that's a rough idea of the shape). They consist of paper made from wood pulp, or sometimes a combination of wood and cloth. The paper is either sewn or glued to a binding made of paper or cardboard; if cardboard, it is usually wrapped in cloth. Either the binding or a separate paper wrapping is decorated in some way, often with a picture of either the author or a scene from the book. The printing inside is usually black, though there may be multi-colored illustrations. Both sides of the paper are used.

Long works (both fiction and reference books) are sometimes printed in more than one volume.

Re: To put it as absurdly as possible...

[petersheil.livejournal.com]

Long works (both fiction and reference books) are sometimes printed in more than one volume.

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[sorry, just couldn't resist :))) ]

Peace
peter

Re: To put it as absurdly as possible...

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

This seems entirely reasonable to me, rather more than miniature racing lightning elementals squashed behind prisons of glass. With all due respect!