Well, folks, I could use some help. I'm working on a story where electric power doesn't exist.
The problem is, I'm not sure what to replace it with. Thoughts?
"The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." Miles Vorkosigan
"You can be an author if you learn to paint pictures with words." Brian Jacques
The obvious for fantasy is magic, but seeing as you're asking, I'm going to guess you haven't got magic in your story.
I agree with Angel - water is the obvious choice. Electricity for what, though? Just light, or telephones too? Because the amount of energy provided by a energy source and the energy needed is dependent on the energy intake, if that made sense.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of
worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to
eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. — JRR Tolkien
