Dragaera

Geography: Version .2 Nearing Completion

Mon Mar 29 15:35:14 PST 2004

> > However, Brust's recent posting in which he said he can only think of a
> > single geographical mistake he's made has caused me to revisit this
> > issue.
> ...
>
> Uh, Steven?  Could you possibly tell us what it was?

I should have been more clear in how I worded that - Brust mentioned that
the mistake was a reversal of direction, and, other than that, the world is
pretty consistent.

So my thought was, maybe Tazendra wasn't grossly off afterall, and Newmarket
really is only 30 or 40 miles from the Eastern River.

As to Brust's "known mistake", I have a very likely candidate in mind:

The Lord of Castle Black, pg 73 - set out from Dragaera City on a long
compaign in the service of a certain Dzurlord who sent them west to the city
of Thalew in the Pushta.

I think Paarfi meant EAST, as the Pushta is consistently to the east of DC,
and there is a mountain range to the west.

There may be others, but I've collected almost 400 text references that
refer to geography in some fashion or the other in Brust's Dragaera novels,
and this is the only one where I think a direction was reversed.


Bryan