This setting is often held up for its “gritty realism.” Now of course there is magic at work here you don’t get dragons and a gazillion-foot-tall wall of ice without some kind of breach of realism. There is an exception to my forgiveness: Game of Thrones, or, if you prefer, A Song of Ice and Fire. I don’t trouble over the absurdly small scale of warfare in Star Wars compared to the size of the galactic population and economy because, um, if I wanted realism I wouldn’t be watching Star Wars. That’s some plausible economic geography.īut in most cases, the obvious demographic and economic illiteracy of an author is totally forgivable because they’re not making any claims to realism. Like, really? Everything between the Shire and Rohan is depopulated save for a few ruins here and there? Did the land just up and stop yielding harvests or something? Sure.
But because I’m both kinds of nerd here, I’m the guy who reads Lord of the Rings and is perpetually bothered by the ridiculous economic models being presented. Update 4: I’ve written a more recent piece discussing the possibility of an industrial revolution in Planetos, why it may/may not happen, and where it will happen if it does.Īside from being a migration nerd, I’m also a general-purpose nerd nerd, and a hobbyist world-builder.
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