my novel outline is like:
Bartimaeus trilogy, in magic system
The Name of The Rose, a medieval-style comment on information and control
Iron Council, in out-and-back, city-and-revolution action structure
Discworld, because I chose to twist up a magic university
The Outstretched Shadow, for city and mageocracy
(and I stole a name from Q/history as 'Eloi Decker')
Interested? Too bad, I can't write, it's never happening.
