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[quillori]

Well, it was hard to narrow it down, but in the end I couldn't go past the five I chose. If you like writing or arting worldbuilding, I'd recommend the book. It's not very long, being 10 very short (3 or 4 paragraph) framing discussions between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, and 2 to 3 page descriptions of 55 different cities. In fact, the cities are all in a way reflections of Venice, but taking as an invitation to worldbuilding, they're marvellous, both to write and to create art for: aerial cities, cities with canals and gardens and airships, a city where merchants gather to trade memories, a city containing a multitude of miniature cities-which-could-have been, a city where houses are connected with coloured strings to indicate the relations between occupants (and then the city abandoned and rebuilt elsewhere, leaving nothing but the web of relationships), a city which maps the stars so closely that changing the city is said to change the skies...