Comments on: Because the Gods Said So, That’s Why

By: Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:40:05 +0000

Doh! Sorry for not responding (I apparently lost track of where I commented). The flat earth story was called “All Tales Must End” and is in an Australian anthology, BELONG, about speculative immigration stories. The story itself is more about a city on the back of a giant turtle, but the flat world/crumbling edges bit is rather pertinent to the tale.

By: Ari Marmell

Ari Marmell — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:54:50 +0000

And actually, that “flat earth with crumbling edges” sounds really cool. What’s the story, and where did you sell it?

By: Ari Marmell

Ari Marmell — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:54:03 +0000

“The only thing a world must be is consistent within itself.”

Oh, absolutely. This isn’t an excuse to just throw random features together with no forethought or logic. Just that said logic doesn’t, in a world with gods walking around physically, have to correspond to the logic of the real world.

By: Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:28:18 +0000

The only thing a world must be is consistent within itself. Establish the rules for your specific world, whether based on real-world physics or not, and then establish all the logical consequences of those rules and how they affect the societies and lands and whatever else you can think of. Internal consistency.

Just my opinion, though (coming from a gal who did actually sell a short story in which the world was flat with slowly crumbling edges).

By: blodeuedd

blodeuedd — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:24:53 +0000

Lol, great post I do admit that in my own modest writing (that will surely never be read by anyone else than me) I have used the Cos the God made it so angle. A desert needed to be next to a place where the snow never melts. Oh those gods

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:05:32 +0000

This has a very promising idea tingle in the back of my mind. Thank you for putting this idea out there to be toyed and played with. I definitely intend to tangle with this at some point in my writting career.

By: Ria (Tea and Tomes)

Ria (Tea and Tomes) — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:05:45 +0000

There is a theory that, if you hold the multiverse theory to have some merit, postulates that the laws that hold our universe together may only apply for our universe, that other alternate universes operate by different laws of physics, etc. So there’s actually some scientific theory to back up a “because the gods said so” argument!