Right now there is this sort of trend in fantasy of 'human only' worlds being very popular. That is fine, but I really, really enjoy settings with a wide variety of races and cultures.
What are some examples (besides the obvious ones like LotR, DnD, etc.) of settings/novels/whatever with race as an element and presence.
There's the Dagger and Coin series by Daniel Abraham.
Ringworld by Larry Niven gets into it in an interesting way. Instead of fixating on what the humans think of the aliums, sometimes the aliums will be surprised or interested or whatever about something weird that the humans did. One example that springs to mind is when the warrior alien is shocked and kind of impressed by a human climbing up some precarious thing. The warrior race guy is part of a species not descended from apes, and doing something like that is unthinkable for him.
Why is the gnome trying to magic away the half-orcs penis?
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Oh hey, is that any good? I had been meaning to check it out after reading his Long Price quartet but forgot about it and never got around to it.
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Magical circumcision. Gnomes are just fantasy Jews after all.
