| ▲ | xandrius 10 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
And this stuff is why I love either super creative science fiction or travelogues (and the formers are hard to find). You can try to imagine a brand new world or simply try to re-live our real and past world. To me that is even more amazing, as it often can be the door to understanding some things of today's cultures and/or discover lost little worlds. Currently I'm going through this book of a guy who cycled across Central Asia and in Japan. The guy is sometimes quite direct in his writing (unlike other writers) but it's so interesting to experience the world of just 100-200 years ago through the lens of one living there. I truly recommend it. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | decimalenough 10 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Can you share the name & author of the book? I'll plug Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands as an extraordinary deep dive into a world that's entirely disappeared in our lifetimes: | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Some video games try and do the former; I play too much FFXIV and a recurring theme there is that you go to a new area and you get the tourist's experience, tour the area, view the sights, meet the locals, figure out the local history and culture, etc. Sure, it's kind of superficial, usually based on human civilizations / design trends / etc; that is: * Heavensward: Europe / traditional knights and castles and church stuffs * Stormblood: East-Asia / Japan, clearly a favorite thing to work on from the developers * Shadowbringers: is actually pretty independent * Endwalker: Rome / Greece on the one side, India on the other, philosophical existential crises in the late game (that part is actually really good, they invented multiple (7-8 or so?) different civilizations who all achieved some kind of immortality and pursued the meaning of life, ending up disillusioned) * Dawntrail (latest): south & mesoamerica on the one side, cyberpunk sci-fi on the other | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | mc3301 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Is it "Around the world on a bicycle"? I, too, would like to know the name of this book. Sounds interesting! | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | lproven 9 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> this book of a guy who cycled across Central Asia and in Japan Go on, give us a clue. Title, author, even language...? | |||||||||||||||||