What principles will determine issues of right and wrong, of justice, of the exercise of power? Will their world operate within the boundaries of a belief system? Will myths and stories from the imagined world’s past (or from other, known worlds) influence the present? In addition to these tangible elements, fantasy authors need to envision the moral framework that governs their created world and the values that underpin it. (Think of J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.) Worlds with unique geographies and climates technologies and customs and even, on occasion, languages. Writers of fantasy fiction create not just characters and plots for their novels, they imagine whole new worlds. Which world is she talking about? The world of Wintersea and the Free State the world inhabited by Morrigan Crow, chief protagonist in Townsend’s new fantasy series, Nevermoor. ‘I know everything about this world’, declares Jessica Townsend in an interview with Publisher’s Weekly. Design by Beatriz Castro, illustration by Jim Madsen. Cover image courtesy of Hachette Australia.
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