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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

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

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Sociological Power vs Force

In the Broken Earth trilogy, you've got people who have the ability to literally move mountains. But there aren't very many of them; they're captured and brainwashed by their oppressors. And so we've seen this happen again and again in our own world. It's not necessarily a good thing but it's how power works. We need to understand how our world works if we're going to be rendering this in another world.

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