Posts tagged The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception
The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1
The World Builder's Bookshelf, Part 1

Now, I’ve had a lot of thoughts on genre fiction in the past, and this list is going to be more useful for people interested in writing a secondary world story, with a particular (but not exclusive) eye towards fantasy fiction. As a result of a number of factors, there are going to be several works that I often make use of in my political thoughts, but this list isn’t primarily or solely focused on that.

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Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron SummersWorld Building, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft from the Ice Age to the Present, Chris Gosden, Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga, Work: A Deep History, James Suzman, Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott, Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, David M. Perry, Matthew Gabriele, Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Wengrow, A Burglar's Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel, The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel, Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de CastroComment
Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021
Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021

I tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.

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Book reviewsCameron SummersN.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard, Non-Places, Marc Augé, Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima, The War on Everyone, Robert Evans, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Postcapitalist Desire, Mark Fisher, Matt Colquhoun, Pet, Akwaeke Emezi, Agency, William Gibson, An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber, Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha LeeComment