One of the standard tropes in SF/fantasy-particularly fantasy for a long time-has been the strange cult. And so, as much as being an examination of real religion, it was intended to be an affectionate investing in that trope of the weird fantastic cults. Rather than constructing a world that is subordinate to the exigencies of the plot or theme or whatever, you create a world and then you inhabit it with stories and characters. This is something that non-genre people mock quite a lot, but it is an absolutely extraordinary thing to do. It's an extraordinary aesthetic project and it can do things in certain ways that other genres cannot.
- ISBN13 9781365644542
- Publish Date 12 April 2018
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 584
- Language English