terminology question
Mar. 11th, 2009 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerIs there a standard term in fantasy (or for that matter, science fiction) for secondary worlds that are distinctly based on a specific primary-world culture? I mean things like the Not-Japan of Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, etc -- settings where the author has lifted an entire culture en masse, rather than just taking elements of it. Is there a word for that?
