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Love love love it. It's not reinventing the wheel, but it's a collection of great, solid advice from some of the best in the biz. Even if you already "know it all", it can serve as a bunch of great reminders, or inspiration to look at something in a fresh way.
I'm going to go read it again - thanks dwarf :)
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This review made me insanely happy, even if the cartographer won the "best essay" nod just because he can draw. :)
Oh, and it's on Kindle and right here on Paizo.
I loved the book. There's a bit of repetition, but mostly on things that clearly need hammering into my head.
After all, when designing an explicitly post-apocalyptic setting, it pays to put more thought into the state of the world now than into the previous 1,000 years of pre-apocalypse history. But is that what I did before reading the book? Nope! Now? Yes.
Whether the cartographer won just because his essay had pretty pictures in it, or because it was in some ways the most practical (it was basically an essay with a demonstration project embedded in it, as I recall)... hard to say for sure. I certainly don't recall it being my personal favorite.