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I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The World Building Project - Pangaea

Strong: We understand the world that we live in innately because we live in it. But what that means is that every single one of us is an expert in surviving on a terrestrial world with a nitrogen-based atmosphere and a carbon-based organic system. The characters who are going to inhabit this world also need to understand it, which means that we do. So we've got to speak and think as the characters do," he says. "It's basically that we need to think like the locals do"

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