Hmm the one I read the excerpt from was about some guy who steals a bunch of maps and is addicted to pain or something like that, and it was actually quite enjoyable (silly units of measurement notwithstanding). She won a bunch of awards for it. I'm guessing the Transformation one is the 4-book series that starts with the premise that magic is banned? The blurb turned me off, since magic being banned and the protagonist either being a mage or being forced to protect one is practically a subgenre in itself.
Basically, I don't think it matters what units you use, as long as it's somewhat intelligible to the reader. If you want to make your world seem more exotic there are better ways to do it than to rename basic terms.
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Date: 2009-10-02 05:11 am (UTC)Basically, I don't think it matters what units you use, as long as it's somewhat intelligible to the reader. If you want to make your world seem more exotic there are better ways to do it than to rename basic terms.