Apparently she wanted to write a book about humans arriving in the Americas and having to deal with megafauna, with magic in it. My first thought is, why not write a fantasy about the humans who actually did arrive in the Americas and did have to deal with megafauna, and let them do the magic?
That's a story I'd like to read.
Alternately, a story about what happened in northeast Asia because there was no land bridge or conveniently narrow waterway to provide an escape valve for population pressures. And how that might have affected the historical pattern of peoples moving west out of Central Asia into Europe.
Would the peoples who became the ancient Greeks, for instance, have migrated west and south at the same time? Would the whole Graeco-Roman underpinning of the European society we know have been altered because there was no way to migrate eastward out of Asia? Would there have been more wars in Central Asia over the centuries and the Silk Road even less reliable? That's an alternate history I'd have been interested in reading, too.
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Date: 2009-05-09 06:17 pm (UTC)That's a story I'd like to read.
Alternately, a story about what happened in northeast Asia because there was no land bridge or conveniently narrow waterway to provide an escape valve for population pressures. And how that might have affected the historical pattern of peoples moving west out of Central Asia into Europe.
Would the peoples who became the ancient Greeks, for instance, have migrated west and south at the same time? Would the whole Graeco-Roman underpinning of the European society we know have been altered because there was no way to migrate eastward out of Asia? Would there have been more wars in Central Asia over the centuries and the Silk Road even less reliable? That's an alternate history I'd have been interested in reading, too.