I know the title probably doesn’t make too much sense, but this year I’ve read the Book of the Ancestor trilogy and Tide Child trilogy. One thing (among many others) that hooked me to these books was the incredible and creative worldbuilding. However, they don’t linger on exposition dumps – they treat the reader as if they are a member of their world, which is really immersive. There’s very little “x is a thing because y happened in the past”, instead it just describes the world as the character knows it to be, referring to the world as naturally as we refer to our own. In fact, lots of things are left unanswered because it’s normal to the characters.
I’ve not emotionally recovered from finishing Tide Child, and I really need a good book or trilogy that has such great worldbuilding to get into so I don’t mourn forever 🥲
by Medical-Albatross106
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Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Gene Wolfe is really great at this, most of his worldbuilding basically needs to be pieced together like a puzzle.
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams