Not just scenery-use your setting's politics to supercharge your story's conflict! Are you dissatisfied with your invented settings? Do you want to do better than Yet Another Standard Medieval Land? Do you want to build gripping story conflict right into the fabric of your world? Learn how your setting can escape the usual clichés-or take the usual clichés and put a bold new twist on them, that readers or players will love! In Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders, you will use fundamental concepts of politics to take the conflict in your story to a whole new level, delighting readers and leaving them wanting more. Inside, you will discover how the Tripod of Power, the four main Regime Actors, and key principles of social conflict can make your setting bold and original, or familiar yet compelling. Most importantly, your setting will be built from the ground up to evoke your story's unique vision. Most books about worldbuilding are written by authors or game designers who know a little bit about everything, including politics. This is the only worldbuilding resource written by a scholar of political science who is also a skilled fiction writer and editor. Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders provides a crash course in the most important ideas from politics, carefully selected and presented to help worldbuilders like you solve your key problem: how can setting be used to tell a powerful story?

Beyond Kings and Princesses: Governments for Worldbuilders (Politics for Worldbuilders)

Litwin, Oren

Legal Theory & Systems

Lagrange Books

What if bribery were legal? What if there were a crowdfunding site for public-works projects? What if you could sue corrupt politicians? How would the country be different? The Best Congress Money Can Buy and six other short stories display visions of our society that are delightfully strange and provocative. Joe is a congressman who openly sells his services to the highest bidder. Nick is a drunken brawler who must pay for his crime in a workhouse. Beth is a peaceful woman in a country where gun ownership is mandatory. Their stories and others explore how our political dysfunctions needn’t be taken for granted, and small changes in our political system can lead to meaningful changes in our lives.

The Best Congress Money Can Buy: Stories of Political Possibility

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Obeying the powerful is easy. To resist takes courage.When interests collide-between countries, or social classes, or different notions of right and wrong-power and violence lurk close by. Do you submit out of fear? Or because it's the smart move? Fight to defend your honor or your home? Or do you fight because that is all you have ever known?In For the Good of the Realm: Stories of Power and Defiance, experience eight fantasy short stories by skilled authors-each with a different take on power and obedience. The succession to a noble title depends on the cunning of an underworld fixer. Wizards and common folk struggle for supremacy in a parliamentary democracy. A famous mercenary general returns to the village that he once conquered, with an unknown purpose. Cultures clash as a barbarian princess arrives at the court of a neighboring king with a shocking request. And more!For the Good of the Realm features the following short stories: <ul><li>"Dinja Duwar," by S.R. Crickard</li><li>"A Well-Placed Word," by Derek Des Anges</li><li>"Magic and Steel," by Liam Hogan</li><li>"Scars," by Jake Lithua</li><li>"Birthstones," by Marshall J. Moore</li><li>"For the Sake of a Dandelion," by Jennifer R. Povey</li><li>"The Silk Code," by Samantha Rich</li><li>"The Warrior Princess of Mogtesa," by JM Williams</li></ul> With an introduction by editor Oren Litwin.

For the Good of the Realm: Stories of Power and Defiance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hogan, Liam

Povey, Jennifer R.

Rich, Samantha

Williams, JM

Moore, Marshall J.

Crickard, S.R.

Des Anges, Derek

Lithua, Jake

Fantasy

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