Makes me wonder if you could connect portal fantasies in certain ways to Cinderella-ish fantasies -- the kinds of stories where a lower-class character gets swept up into high society for some contrived reason.
But to do stories of one culture to an entirely foreign one, and to do it entirely within a secondary world, you'd have to build two convincing cultures and get the reader to identify with one of them as the baseline, which is hard.
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Date: 2009-04-21 07:33 pm (UTC)But to do stories of one culture to an entirely foreign one, and to do it entirely within a secondary world, you'd have to build two convincing cultures and get the reader to identify with one of them as the baseline, which is hard.