Does an example exist

[james_davis_nicoll]

Of a fantasy where the models for the setting are based on Majapahit and/or Srivijaya?

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that I know of Srivijaya from a previous time you asked this...

[autopope.livejournal.com]

"Divine Endurance" by Gwynneth Jones, I think? Only that's far-future SF (post-collapse) rather than fantasy.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/1630655.html

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Yep! Though I see my random reading had just beaten you to the punch.

[tamago.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but if there were, I'd totally want to read it.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Me too. I would love to see less Euro centric fantasy. I recommend Jeanne Larsen's books set in ancient China and Barry Hughart's Master Li series for fantasy based on Chinese themes.

[treetelling.livejournal.com]

Closest I can think of is "Wheel of the Infinite," based on the Khmer Empire next door. I'd like to hear of any about Srivijaya!

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

This is a home brew RPG setting (not mine), but it is flavored a bit like the SE Asian archipelagos:

http://gehennum.wikidot.com/introduction

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Copyright © 2004—2009 by Brett Evill

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

I do not understand why you quoted that.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I hadn't expected to encounter it.

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Ah. Mr. Evill has designs to eventually publish his stuff.

I have no idea why he cut the CR at 2009 though.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

It's ideal for an SFnal setting, since the population was ridiculously low -- divide the current population by 50 or so. Which is still interesting: it's about the population of the Venetian empire in its heyday, also an interesting maritime empire.

I am not sure that even the Red River valley -- modern Hanoi and environs -- during the Majapahit period had the crazy intensive rice cultivation so characteristic of east and southeast Asia today. (But probably by the Srivijaya period, which is ultimately why the Chams today are a tiny minority in their former nation. Being the elite with the temples and the boats doesn't do you much good when the terraferma can outproduce you ten to one.)

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

For a very, very loose interpretation of your question, there's Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, about a WWII destroyer that's sucked through a negative space wedgie to an alternate universe where the Malay archipelago is inhabited by sapient lemurs who were driven out of Madagascar centuries ago by evil dinosaurs. That first map matches the Lemurian civilization pretty well.

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

I've had ideas about an RPG campaign in such a setting, but never got it anywhere (so far).

[melita66.livejournal.com]

It doesn't make much use of the archipelago setting, but perhaps Tamora Pierce's Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen?

[joecrow.livejournal.com]

I've been tinkering with southeast-Asian/Indonesian-inspired-setting fantasy off and on for a while. The delay revolves at least partially around finding useful (and affordable) research materials. (That and my generally slow-ass writing.)

Any recommendations, research-wise?