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.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
