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scifi_writer
Posted 2013-07-02 10:50 AM (#5370)
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What are people's feeling about an appendix in a scifi/fantasy book (not the classics, but a new one)? Do you see it as interesting additional material or the sign of weak writing (as in, why couldn't they explain this stuff in the actual book)? Thoughts?

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francesashton
Posted 2013-07-03 1:20 PM (#5379 - in reply to #5370)
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Location: Cheshire, England		I don't read appendices. Most of the ones I find are either lists of characters or word-pronunciation guides and if you want to add them then fine. Can't say that I've ever read anything about how the world was built and it's history or religions or whatever. If I can't work that out from the text then it wasn't very well written :-).

Must say I quite like an epilogue: it's nice to see what happened to everyone at the end though with some never-ending fantasies you don't get many of these nowadays.
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Deven Science
Posted 2013-07-21 4:56 PM (#5444 - in reply to #5370)
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Location: Sacramento, California		An appendix can be useful, but I generally only glance over them quickly.

There are certain books where I found something like maps of the area, or glossaries to be very useful. A Clockwork Orange comes to mind.
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Badseedgirl
Posted 2013-08-01 12:51 AM (#5470 - in reply to #5444)
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Deven Science - 2013-07-21 4:56 PM

An appendix can be useful, but I generally only glance over them quickly.

There are certain books where I found something like maps of the area, or glossaries to be very useful. A Clockwork Orange comes to mind.


I also use maps found in the appendix, but very rarely use the rest of them. The exception to that was The Songs of Fire and Ice series. There were just so many characters, some with similar names, that I found the listings of the members of each house to be quite useful. I only used them in the first book, because after that I either knew the characters, or they were dead!
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