Besides Lewis, The Magicians is the only novel with the trope that I've read (and I hated The Magicians. I won't say that about a lot of things, but I really, really hated it). I know that it's not a strange or unfamiliar trope, but I'm not sure that there is any way to do it where that wouldn't be a focal point of the story, and that's not the way I'd wanted to do it in a novel like this. Especially where the world-jumping is more background than part of the main story, I guess is what I'm getting at? Since I apparently didn't make that very clear.
Um. Let me see if I can rephrase. The idea I would be interested in playing with isn't so much "hey, these people are from another world, and are the predestined magical saviors" with or without the themes I usually play with when it comes to the Pevensies: readjusting, and home, and turning into something you're not and so on. It's the flip side of that: "hey, there are these people who show up over and over again to save us; we don't know from where and maybe it doesn't matter, but we need them now." If that makes sense?
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Date: 2013-02-27 06:48 am (UTC)Um. Let me see if I can rephrase. The idea I would be interested in playing with isn't so much "hey, these people are from another world, and are the predestined magical saviors" with or without the themes I usually play with when it comes to the Pevensies: readjusting, and home, and turning into something you're not and so on. It's the flip side of that: "hey, there are these people who show up over and over again to save us; we don't know from where and maybe it doesn't matter, but we need them now." If that makes sense?