Index

• Abarrach 179, 184; see also world of stone

• ABC Television Network 120

• Abrams, J. J. 207, 214–215

• Academy Awards 97

• Ackerman, Forrest J. 134

• “Acquisition” (TV episode) 212–213

• Adams, Scott xvi

• Adventure #1 — Adventureland xvi

• Adventure #2 — Pirate Adventure xvi

• Adventure #3 — Secret Mission xvi

• Adventure #4 — Voodoo Castle xvi

• Adventure #5 — The Count xvi

• Adventure #6 — Strange Odyssey xvi

• Adventure #7 — Mystery Fun House xvi

• Adventure #8 — Pyramid of Doom xvi

• Adventure #9 — Ghost Town xvi

• Adventure #10 — Savage Island, Part I xvi

• Adventure #11 — Savage Island, Part II xvi

• Adventure #12 — Golden Voyage xvi

• Adventure #13 — Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle xvi

• Adventure #14 — Return to Pirate’s Isle xvi

• Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) 146–147

• Adventure International xvi, 138

• Adventure/ADVENT 138

• Adventureland xvi

• Adventureland XL xvi

• aesthetics 58

  • aesthetic pleasure 43

  • circles 63

  • nature 63

  • paradigms 46

  • phenomenon 62

  • revolution 61

  • views 45

• affective shifting 213

• afterlife as theme 56, 60

• AGD Interactive 147, 150

• Alfred (Sartan) 176–179, 182–183, 185, 187–188

• algorithm as narrative 42, 63

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 10, 105, 178

• Alien: Covenant 211

• Alien series 211

• Altman, Robert 54

• Amazing Stories 126

• American Sign Language 98

• Amiga 139, 146

• Angelique’s Descent (novel) 133–134

• antihero 46, 52–53

• antiquity 60–63

• appendices see world-building techniques

• Apple II 138–139, 143, 146

• Apple Macintosh 139, 146

• Apuleius 46, 61

• architecture 27, 30–31, 33–35

• archival evidence 176

• Arda 226

• Arianus 176, 179–180, 182–186; see also world of air world of sky

• Aristophanes 86

• Aristotle 43, 47

• Arrakis 2

• Artaud, Antonin 61–62

• Asteroids 228

• astonishment 43; see also estrangement, defamiliarization

• Astounding Stories 127

• Atari ST 146

• Atlantic Ocean 88

• Atlas of Middle-earth 232

• audio books 86

• authorship 147, 151–152

  • author’s craft or strategy 41–44, 46–48, 52–53, 58, 60–62, 64, 66

  • multiple authors 137, 146, 147–150, 151–152

• axiology 43, 49, 63, 64; see also value systems

• Bachelard, Gaston 23

• backstory 197–199, 202, 204, 208, 211

• Baggins, Bilbo 211

• Bakhtin, Mikhail 46–47, 55–56, 62, 64–66

• Bal, Mieke 22

• ballet 98

• Balzac, Honoré 22, 26

• Bannerworth, Marmaduke 124

• Barnabas Collins and Quentin’s Demon (novel) 128

• Barnabas Collins vs. The Warlock (novel) 128

• Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers (novel) 128

• Barnabas, Quentin and The Crystal Coffin (novel) 128

• Barnabas, Quentin and The Mummy’s Curse (novel) 128

• Barnabas, Quentin and the Vampire Beauty (novel) 128

• baroque 52, 58, 62, 66

• Barquentine 111

• Barrayar 67, 70–74, 76–79

• Barrie, James M. 86

• Barsetshire 2–3, 227

• Barthes, Roland 225

• Bathory, Elisabeth 128, 134

• Batman (TV series) 120–121

• Batman and Robin 209

• Belle of Amherst, The 86

• Bennett, Joan 121, 125, 133

• Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 115

• de Bergerac, Cyrano 11

• Berman, Rick 207, 210, 214–215

• Berrigan, Don 86

• Bessie (cow) 91

• Beta Colony 69, 70–72, 76–77

• Betjeman J. 101

• Bewitched (TV series) 120–121, 125

• Big Finish Audio Dramas 133

• Birds, The (play) 86

• Black Lodge (Twin Peaks) 192, 194, 199, 200, 202, 203

• Black Ops 222

• Blake, W. 106

• Bleak House 108–110

• Blue Whale 122

• BOB (Twin Peaks) 192, 197–200, 202

• body 159–161, 167–168

• Body Snatchers, The (novel) 128

• Book of Sir John Mandeville, The 10

• Borges, Jorge Luis 50

• Boston, Massachusetts 91

• Bouchard, Angelique 125, 127, 130, 132–134

• Bowen, E. 101

• Boy in Darkness 102

• Braga, Brannon 207, 210, 214–215

• Broadway 96

• Bronte, Emily 127

• Brook, Peter 61

• brother as theme, motif, symbolism 42, 45, 48, 52–54, 57–58

• Brothers Karamazov, The 3, 40–66

• Buchan, John 33

• Buffalo, New York 91, 93

• Building Imaginary Worlds 2, 98

• Bujold, Lois McMaster 3, 67–82

• Bunyan, John 106

• Burgess, Anthony 101, 110, 111

• Burnham, Michael 215–219

• Burns, Edward 97–98

• Burton, Tim 135

• Butler, Samuel 163

• Butlerian Jihad 159–165, 171

• Bykov, Dmitry 40, 45, 46, 65

• “Cage, The” (TV episode) 219

• California 98

• Canavan, Gerry 210, 222

• canonicity 206–207, 209–222

• Cantina Band 228

• Čapek, Karel 86

• carnival, carnivalesque 47, 63, 65

• Carroll, Lewis 10, 105, 178

• Cartwright family 88, 91–92, 94–96

• catharsis 43, 49, 53, 60

• Cavendish, Margaret 10

• CBS 215, 221–222

• CBS All Access 207, 221

• Cervantes, Miguel de 62

• Cetaganda 74–75, 77, 79–81

• Chagall, Marc 62

• Chalion series 67, 68

• change, rate of 24–25

• character (in narrative) 41, 43–44, 46–50, 52–56, 58–59, 61, 64

• chase scene 231

• Cheeta 115–116

• Chelestra 2, 178, 182, 184–187; see also world of water

• Childs, Annette 146

• China 74–75, 109–110

• Christian VI 16

• Christian faith, contexts 50, 56–57

• Church of England 24, 28, 30

• civil rights 71

• Clarice and Cora 102, 111

• Clarke, Arthur C. 12

• Clarke, Susanna 181–182

• Classicism 44

• clones 76

• Cloudcuckooland 86

• Clute, John 105, 109

• Cobert, Robert 129

• code: codes clashing or synchronized 47

  • cultural code 45, 47–48

  • narrative code and algorithm 42

  • secret and hidden code 43, 47, 49

  • socio-cultural code 41

  • symbolic code 48

  • transcultural code 44

• Codex Seraphinianus 226

• cognitive revolution 165

• coherence 206, 209, 221, 226

• cohesion 226

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 105–106

• collective unconscious 169–170

• Collins, Barnabas 124–134

• Collins, Bramwell 127

• Collins, Carolyn Stoddard 122, 126

• Collins, David 121, 123

• Collins, Elizabeth Stoddard 121, 126, 133

• Collins House 121

• Collins, Josette (DuPres) 123, 125, 127, 132, 134

• Collins, Laura Murdoch 123–124

• Collins, Quentin 126, 128–130, 132, 134

• Collins, Roger 121, 123, 130

• Collinsport 2, 120, 122–123, 131

• Collinwood 120–121, 123–125, 127–136

• Colossal Cave Adventure 138

• comedy 48, 59–60

• Comic Con 215

• Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon 11

• comics 206

• commodity brading 215

• community 44, 60, 64

• comparing worlds 225–232

• completeness 229

• Concrete Happening 97

• confession 44, 46, 59

• conflict 41, 43, 45, 48

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 13

• conscience 41, 45, 55, 59

• consistency 226, 229

• continuity 206–210, 212–215, 217, 220–222

• Conway, Massachusetts 89

• Cotahatchee tribe 95

• Coto, Manny 206, 214

• Craig family 91, 93, 95

• creativity xv

• Crime and Punishment 46

• crime fiction and genre 40, 45, 47–48, 58–59, 62, 66

• crime investigation 46, 48

• crime theme 43, 44, 48, 52–53, 58–59, 65

  • crime scene 43

• Crimes of Grindelwald, The 211

• Crofut, Jane 90

• Crowell family 91, 96

• cultural capital 197, 201, 202

• Curtis, Dan 119, 122–123, 130–133, 135–136

• Dark Passages (novel) 134

• Dark Shadows 3, 119–135

  • games 129

  • origins 119–120

  • original TV series 119–127

  • novels 127–128, 133–134

• Dark Tower Series 178

  • The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger 180

  • The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three 178

  • The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass 180

• Daventry 2–3, 137–155

• Davies, Marie-Messenger 214

• Day, Andrea 151

• De Camp, L. Sprague 127

• de la Mare, W. 108

• Deaf West Theater 98

• Death Gate Cycle Series 3, 175–179, 182–183, 185, 188

• death-rebirth 55, 63

• Death’s Gate 177–179, 185, 187

  • Death Gate 175, 183

• decoding 41, 51, 53, 58

• defamiliarization 48–49

• Deleuze, Gilles 62

• Den of Geek 217

• Depp, Johnny 135

• Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, The 10

• destiny 52, 57

• detective novel 41, 59

• Dickens, Charles 30, 46, 106, 108–110

• direct address 87

• disability 79

• Discworld 181

• Discworld Series 181

• Doestoevsky, Fyodor 3

• dog 176, 183, 187

• Dolan, Marc 199, 202–203

• Don Quixote 62

• Doppelganger 42

• Doré, G. 105

• Dorfman, Eugene 225

• Dostoevsky, Fyodor 40–66

• Double, The 46

• Dracula (novel) 122

• Dragon Wing 176, 181–185

• dragons of Pryan see Pryan

• dragon-snakes 178, 187–188

• Drama Desk Award 98

• Dreams of the Dark (novel) 134

• Dreyer, Carl Theodor 61

• drugs 164

• Du Maurier, Daphne 127

• Dublin, Massachusetts 89

• Dune 3, 159–160, 166

• “Dunwich Horror, The” (short story) 126

• Dwarf Fortress 227

• Dwarves 176, 178, 184–186

  • dwarf 180

  • Dwarven 184

• Dydo, Ulla E. 97–98

• Dynamite Comics 134

• Dyson sphere 184

• dystopia 18, 44, 64, 110

• Earth 227

• East Jaffrey, Massachusetts 89

• East Sutton, Massachusetts 98

• Echo Base 230

• egalitarianism 70–71

• Eisenstein, Sergei 62

• ekphrasis 226

• El Greco 106

• 11 rue Simon-Crubellier 227

• Elven Star 176, 186

• Elves 176, 178, 182, 185–186

  • Elvish 185

  • Elven 186

  • Kenkari Elves 179

• Empire Strikes Back, The 230

• enigma, as content and form 43–44, 52, 58, 64

• Enlightenment 13, 18

• “Enterprise Continuity Problems” (webpage) 212

• entertainment stepping stones 215

• Equilan 184

• Escape the Gloomer xvi

• eschatology, eschatological 40, 43, 55–59, 60–61, 64

• estrangement, making strange 43, 49; see also astonishment

• ethics 45, 56, 65

• Eureka Springs, Arkansas 86

• Europe 93

• Evreinov, Nikolai 62

• Ex Astris Scienta 212

• Fairy Books 151–152

• fairy tales 142, 150–152

• “Fall of the House of Usher, The” (short story) 130

• Fallon, Sarah 232

• family 45, 48, 52–55, 59

• fan cultural capital 193, 197, 199, 201–202

• fan disservice 197, 200

• fan fiction 25, 137, 147, 149–150, 212

• fan service 192–193, 202

• fandom 191–193, 195–205, 208, 210–214, 218–219, 221–222

• fanon 207, 215

• fantagonism 210

• Fantastic Beasts 211

• Fantastic or Magic Realism 41, 43–44, 46, 61–62

• fantasy, fantastic 7, 10–11, 13, 41, 43–44, 47, 58, 61, 64

• farce 59, 64

• Fate as theme, agency 44, 52, 54, 56

• father as theme, motif, symbolism 44–48, 52–53, 55, 57–58, 64

• Fathers and Sons 44

• fear 44, 48, 50, 55

• Fellowes, Julian 54

• femme fatale 54

• Ferengi 212–213

• fetish 50

• feudal system 172

• film 2, 85, 96–98, 206–207, 211, 229

• film noir 58

• Film Studies 225

• Filonov, Pavel 62

• Finney, Jack 128

• Fire Sea 178, 184

• Fisher, Mark 192–194, 197, 203

• Fitting, Peter 10, 13

• Flay 106, 108, 111

• Florensky, Pavel 62

• folklore 41–42, 45, 47, 50, 57, 64

• Fonstad, Karen Wynn 226, 232

• footnotes see world-building techniques

• Ford, Sam 210, 222

• forgiveness 44

• France 91

• franchises 191–192, 195, 197, 200–202, 211, 213–214

• Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus 11

• free will xv

• freedoms 72

• Freidenberg, Olga 55–56

• Frid, Jonathan 124, 127–131, 133, 135

• frontstory 211, 216, 218, 220

• Frost, Mark 3, 193–195, 198, 200, 202–204

• Fuchsia 102

• Fuller, Bryan 215, 217

• Gaiman, Neil 101

• Gapminder 232

• Gargantua & Pantagruel 46

• Garner, Ross 191, 196, 203

• gate(s) 177, 179

• gender 15–18

• genealogy 88, 95

• general semantics 170

• genre 43, 45–48, 51, 59

• geography 42, 85, 87–88, 227

• Georgia, Phillipia 222

• Gernsback, Hugo 11

• Gertrude, Countess 102, 111

• gestalt 127

• ghost 123, 125–126, 129–130

• Gibbs family 89, 91–96

• globalization 48, 56, 63, 64

• God xv, 90

• Gold Key Comics 128

• Goldberg, Whoopi 135

• Goldman, Akiva 217, 219

• Gondor 226

• Good Year Playhouse 120

• Gormenghast 2–3, 100–116

• Gosford Park 54

• Grand Theft Auto V 228

• Grant, John 105, 109

• Great Time, as concept of Bakhtin 44, 64

• Greece 94

• Greedo 231

• Greek chorus 86

• Greene, Graham 100

• Greenville, North Carolina 86

• Griffin 8, 11, 13

• Grimm, Brothers 106

• grotesque 64

• Grotowski, Jerzy 61

• Grover’s Corners 2, 85, 87–91, 93–96, 98

• Grover’s Corners (musical) 98

• Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles 150

• guilt 45, 58

• Gulliver’s Travels 7, 10–11, 15, 18

• Haberts, Aaron 217

• Hall, Sam 120

• Hallam, Lindsay 192–194, 196, 198–200, 203

• Halley, Edmund 13

• Hamlet 61

• Hand of Chaos, The 182, 185

• hand-crafted worlds 227–228

• Hanson, Christopher 3

• Haplo (Patryn) 175–180, 182, 184–185, 187–188

• Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, The 87

• hard sciences 159–160, 171

• Harris, J. 101

• Harwood-Smith, Jennifer 3

• Haven (TV series) 178

  • “Lost and Found” 178

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel 29

• head canon 207

• Heinlein, Robert A. 67

• Heiress of Collinwood (novel) 134

• Hellenism 44, 46, 62

• Herbert, Frank 159, 164, 166, 168, 170

• Here 93, 98, 227

• hermeneutics 48, 51, 53

• Hermes Press 128

• Hersey family 95–96

• Hickman, Tracy 3, 175–182, 184–185

• Higgins, Andrew 3

• Hilbert, David 232

• Hillard, Molly Clark 152

• Hills, Matt 3, 191–204, 208, 222–224

• history, historic 1, 41–43, 45, 57, 59–61, 85, 88, 90, 227

• History of a Town, The 64

• Hitchcock’s Diegetic Imagination: Thornton Wilder, Shadow of a Doubt, and Hitchcock’s Mise-en-Scéne 99

• Hobbit, The 11, 86, 211

• Hoffman, Julia (Dr.) 134

• Holberg, Ludvig 3, 7–18

• Hollow Earth 7, 12–13, 18

• Hollywood 97

• Holocaust 115

• Hoth 230

• House of Dark Shadows (film) 130

• House, The (TV show) 120

• Hugh the Hand 182

• Hugo Award 67

• Hula girls 177

• Huygens, Christiaan 13

• hyperdiegesis 206, 208–209, 215, 217–218

• “I, Mudd” (TV episode) 218

• i09 217

• IBM 138, 146

• IBM PCjr 138–139, 145–146, 148

• Ibsen, Henrik 62

• iceberg vs searchlight 69

• I-Ching 125–126

• identity 43–45, 52, 55, 63

• ideology 42, 64

• Idiot, The 40

• “If Memory Serves” (TV episode) 219

• imagery 42, 45, 49

• imaginary world 41, 43–47, 49, 58–59, 64–65, 206–207, 211, 218

• imbalance 177, 179, 186–187

• inconsistency 206, 210

• infodump 180–181

• infratrsuctures see world infrastructures

• Inglis, Rob 86

• Inheritance, The xvi

• Innocent Abroad 180–181

• InterAction see Sierra Newsletter

• Interactive Fantasies 150

• interconnectivity 175–8

• interpretation 41, 46–48, 51–52

• interquel 217

• Into the Labyrinth 184

• invention 229

• irony 41, 47, 50, 53–55, 62

• Islandia 2, 226

• Jackson, Shirley 127

• Jackson’s Whole 75–76

• Jacques, Brian xvi

• Jaffrey, Massachusetts 89

• James, Edward 3

• James, Henry 126, 128

• James, M. R. 26, 28

• Jane Eyre (novel) 121

• Japan 73–74

• jeeveses 76

• Jenkins, Henry 119, 131, 141, 213, 223

• Jensen, Jane 149, 150

• Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell 181

• Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground, The 7, 10–11, 13–14, 16, 18

• Journey to the Center of the Earth 11

• judge, judgement 55–56, 60–61

• Juno 115

• Karlavaegen, Derek 150–151

• Karlen, John 133

• karma 52, 56–57

• Kazakhstan 88

• Kelvin Timeline 208, 215, 221

• Kennedy, Kara 3

• Kepler, Johannes 11

• Khan 222

• Kicksey-winsey 182, 184–186

• King, Stephen 178, 180

• King Lear 61

• King’s Quest (1984) 3, 137, 143, 147, 152

• King’s Quest: Adventures of Graham 149

• King’s Quest Companion, The 141–142, 145, 150

• King’s Quest: Mask of Eternity 139, 143, 149

• King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown 137, 146, 147

• King’s Quest II: Romancing the Stones 147

• King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne 139, 145, 146

• King’s Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human 147, 149

• King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella 141, 146

• King’s Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! 141, 145, 148

• King’s Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow 149, 150

• King’s Quest VII: The Princeless Bride 141, 149

• King’s Quest ZZT 150

• Kipling, Rudyard 32

• Kirk, James T. 208, 216, 218–219

• Klingons 215, 217, 220

• Knox, Ronald 26

• Komarr 69

• Kornhaber, Donna 97, 99

• Kovacs, George 210, 223

• Kuling 109

• Kurosawa, Akira 40

• Kurtzman, Alex 207, 215, 217, 220–222

• Labyrinth 175, 177–180, 185, 187–188

• Lake Sunapee 89

• Lake Winnipesaukee 89

• Lake Wobegon 227

• Lang, Andrew 151–152

• Lang, Leonora Blanche “Nora” 151–152

• Las Vegas 221

• Leinster, Murray 127

• Lem, Stanisłaus 228

• Lennard, John 69

• Lesser, Sol 97

• Letters of Gertrue Stein and Thornton Wilder, The 98

• Leviathans 126–127, 133

• Levy-Bruhl, Lucien 46

• Lewis, C. S. 10, 13, 101, 112

• Licensed Practical Sexuality Therapists (LPSTs) 71

• licensing 149, 150

• Life: A User’s Manual 227

• Limbeck (dwarf) 180

• Lindbergh, Charles 94

• linguistics 168, 170–171

• Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The 10

• literature 85–86, 206, 225

• liveness 86

• Loomis, Willie 133

• Lord of The Rings, The 11, 56, 86, 211

• “Lottery, The” (short story) 127

• love as theme 50, 51, 53–54

• Lovecraft, H. P. 126

• Lovett, Charlie 26, 27–28, 29, 36

• Lowe, Al 151

• Lucas, George 211

• Luce, William 86

• Lucian of Samosata 10

• Lynch, David 3, 191–192, 194–205

• Macbeth 61

• MacCaulay, Thomas Babington 22

• MacDowell County 85

• magic 11–13, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, 185, 188

  • Patryn 176, 182–183,

  • possibility magic 177, 183

  • rune/runic 176–177, 183

  • Sartan 183

• Magic Realism 41, 43–44, 46, 61–62; see also Fantastic Realism

• Mallory, J. P. 23

• “Man Trap, The” (TV episode) 119

• Maning, Stewart 135

• maps see world-building techniques

• March, Shelia 121

• Marlowe, Christopher 106

• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia 50

• Martin, George R. R. 1

• Martin-Green, Sonequa 216

• Marvel Cinematic Universe 215

• Marx, Karl 15

• Marxist/Marxism 15–16

• Mary Sue, The 217

• Massachusetts 88

• Massachusetts Tech 91

• Massie, Elizabeth 134

• Master of Shadows: The Gothic World of Dan Curtis (documentary) 135

• Mathematics 232

• McAvoy, David 196, 197, 200, 204

• McGuire, Richard 93, 98, 227

• McMahan, Mike 221

• measuring worlds 225–232

• media, the 41–43, 49, 60, 62

• Medon, Tion 231

• Méliès, Georges 18

• Memory Alpha 209

• Memory Beta 209

• “Menagerie, The” (TV episode) 219

• Mendlesohn, Farah 103, 178, 180–181, 183

• mensch 185–188

• Merrimack County 98

• Metamorphosis 46, 61

• metaphor 44, 45, 47, 51, 52, 62–64

• metatheatrical devices 87

• Meyer, Nicolas 222

• Meyerhold, Vsevolod 61

• Micromégas 11

• Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 61

• Miéville, China 105

• Millay, Diana 123–124

• Millennium Falcon 230

• Mills, Craig 149

• mind 159–161, 163, 165–168

• Minecraft 227, 232

• “Mirror, Mirror” (TV episode) 127

• Mirror Universe 218, 220, 222

• misterium 40, 43, 59–64, 66

• modernism 52, 61, 63

• Molière 15

• Moody, Ellen 22

• moonrise 90, 98

• Moorcock, M. 101

• morality 41, 43, 45, 50, 55–58, 60–61, 64–65

• Morgan, C. 101

• Morr, Kenyon 149

• Morris, William 106

• Mount, Anson 222

• movies 130, 135

  • audio dramas 132–133

  • comics 128, 132, 134

  • fandom 130–133

  • reboots 130–131

• MPI Video 132, 135

• Mt. Monadnock 89

• Mt. Washington 89

• Mudd, Harry “Harcourt Fenton” 218

• “Mudd’s Women” (TV episode) 218

• multiple authors see authorship

• multiverse 150–151

• mundemes 225

• murder mystery 45, 47–48, 50, 54

• Muzzlehatch 115

• Myst 228

• mystery as book, genre 40, 43–45, 47–48, 51–52

• Mystery House 138, 148

• mytheme 42, 54, 57, 64

• mythologeme 42, 47

• mythopoesis 40, 42–46, 49, 62, 64

• Nabokov, Vladimir 40, 45–46

• Naismith, Cordelia 70–73, 77–79

• name, naming 43–44, 46, 52–55

• Narnia 11

• narractivity 212

• narremes 225

• Nazar 2–3, 7–12, 17

• NBC Television Network 119–120, 132

• neo-canon 208

• Nephelokokkygia 86

• New York 94

• New York Times, The 94

• Newsome, Howie 91

• Nexus 175, 177–180, 184–185, 187–188

• Nickelodeon 221

• Niels Klim’s Underground Travels 3

• Night of Dark Shadows (film) 130

• Nimoy, Leonard 218

• Nineteen Eighty-Four 116

• Niven, Larry 127

• No Man’s Sky 227

• Nochimson, Martha 191–192, 204

• North America 88

• North Conway, Massachusetts 89

• North Sutton, Massachusetts 98

• Nosé, Takuji 87, 98

• Notes from the Underground 46

• novel, as cultural form 40–49, 53–56, 58–59, 62, 64

• Oberammergau, Germany 86

• O’Brien, K. 101

• Odd Gentlemen, The 137, 149

• Odyssey, The 10, 45

• Oedipus 45, 57, 64

• Official Book of King’s Quest, The 143–145

• One Step Beyond (TV Show) 120

• On-Line Systems see Sierra

• ontology 212

• opera 98

• Orci, Robert 207, 215

• origin story 198–199, 202

• Original Music from Dark Shadows (audio recording) 129

• Orquiloa, John 218

• Our Town 3, 85–99

• Outer Limits, The (TV Show) 120

• overlaid worlds 123

• paganism 44, 47, 52, 57

• Palmer, Laura (Twin Peaks) 193–194, 197–200, 202

• parallel time 121, 127, 130

• parallel universes see multiverse

• paratexts 138–139, 142–151

• Paris 227

• Parker, Lara 125, 133–134

• Pasadena Playhouse 98

• Pasolini, Pier Paolo 61

• Passion Plays 86

• pathos 47, 62

• Patryn 176–180, 182–188

• Peake, Mervin 3, 100–116

• Pearson, Roberta 214

• Peck, Ethan 218

• Peel, Jeremy 232

• Perec, Georges 227

• perspective as narrative, cultural 40, 43, 45, 47–48, 53–54, 59, 63–64

• Peter Pan (play) 86

• Petersborough, New Hampshire 85, 89

• phase space 225

• Phoenix 123–124

• Picard, Jean-Luc 221

• Picture of Dorian Gray, The 42

• Pietism 15–16, 18

• Pike, Christopher 218–220, 222

• Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 58

• Plato 14

• Poe, Edgar Allen 26, 106, 128, 130

• Pohl, Frederik 127

• politics 41–42, 44–45, 47, 59, 61, 63–65

• PONG 228

• portals 177–179, 183, 185

• post-apocalyptic science fiction 67

• Pratchett, Terry 101, 181

• “Premature Burial, The” (short story) 128

• prequels 209, 211–212, 215–216, 221–222

• Priest, Thomas Pickett 124

• Primary World 1, 181, 226

• procedurally generated worlds 227–228

• Professor Gruber 96, 98

• Professor Willard 89, 93, 95–96, 98

• Prometheus 211

• Propp, Vladimir 45, 64, 65

• Prospero’s Island 86

• proto-science fiction 11, 18

• Prucher, J. 180

• Prunesquallor, Dr. 111, 113

• Prunesquallor, Irma 111

• Pryan 184–188

  • dragons of Pryan 187–188; see also world of fire

• psychology 165–166, 168–171

  • Gestalt 165, 168

  • Jungian 168–170

• Pulitzer Prize 85, 96

• Pullman Car Hiawatha 87, 98

• puzzle, as narrative form 41, 43, 45–46, 49, 51, 54, 58

• quantum state 178

• Quentin’s Theme 129

• Quinn, Seabury 126

• Quinto, Zachary 218

• Quora 209, 217

• R. U. R. (play) 86

• Rabelais, François 46

• radio 97, 229

• radio plays 86

• Rainey, Steven Mark 134

• Raw (comics) 98

• reader, framing perspective on narrative 41, 43, 47–50, 52–53

• realism 41, 43–44, 46, 59, 61–62

• Realm of the Sky 176; see also Arianus

• Rebecca (novel) 127, 130

• rebirth 55, 63

• recognition 45, 49, 54, 57; see also anagnorisis

• Reddit 209

• Redwall Universe xvi

• religion 41–42, 47, 49–50, 56

• Remark, Erich Maria 55

• Renaissance 44, 62, 63

• resonance 40, 44, 47, 52–53, 64

• retroactive continuity (retcon) 211–212, 216

• Return to Collinwood 132–133, 136

• Return To Pirate Island 2 xvi

• revelation 43, 46, 51–52, 58, 60, 64

• Revisiting Imaginary Worlds 2

• Rick and Morty 221

• riddle 41, 43, 45, 47–49, 51, 58

• Ride-a-Cock-Horse 107

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner 105

• ritual 43, 47–48, 51–55, 58, 60–63, 65

• rivers 30–31

• Rockport, Massachusetts 88

• Roddenberry, Gene 210, 214, 219

• Romanticism 42, 52, 61, 62

• Rome 94

• Root, Luther 212–213

• Ross, Marilyn (William Edward Daniel Ross) 128

• Rossetti, D. G. 106

• Rowling, J. K. 211

• runes 176–177, 183

• Russell, Gordon 120

• Russia 72, 73, 74

• Rymer, James Malcolm 124

• S/Z 225

• Salem Branch, The (novel) 134

• salience 230–231

• Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail 64

• Samah (Sartan) 177–179, 185–187

• Sandy Bay 88

• Sarek 217

• Sartan 175–180, 182–188

• satire 7, 10, 13, 16

• Schneider, Bernd 212

• Schumacher, Joel 209

• science fiction 7, 11–13, 18

• Scorsese, Martin 40

• Scott, Kathryn Leigh 123, 125, 134

• Scott, Ridley 211

• Screen Rant 218

• secondariness 123–124, 127

• secondary world 177, 181; see also subcreation

• secret knowledge 43, 47, 48, 50–51, 54, 65

• Section 31, 221

• Selby, David 126, 129, 132

• self-reflexivity 87

• Sellers, Peter 101

• semantics 42–44, 51, 56, 58

• Sentinel 94

• Sepulchrave, Lord 102, 106, 111

• Sergyar 69–70

• series novels 21–22

• Serpent Mage 177, 179, 185

• serpents 187–188; see also dragon snakes

• Seventh Gate 179, 187–188

• Seventh Gate, The 179, 182, 185

• Shadows on the Wall 120–121

• Shakespeare, William 41, 86

• shame, as narrative theme 44, 54–55

• Shannon, Lorelei 149

• Sharing Knife series 67

• Shatner, William 216

• Shelley, Mary 11

• showrunners 208, 210, 214, 217–218, 220

• Sideways in Time (short story) 127

• Sierra 137–139, 146–149

• Sierra Creative Interpreter (SCI) 147, 149

• Sierra Newsletter 149

• Sierra On-Line see Sierra

• sigla 177

• Skotoprigonyevsk 2

• Skywalker, Anakin 231

• Skywalker, Luke 230

• Slaughterhouse Five 64

• slavery, slaves 76

• Soames family 96

• soap opera 121–122, 135

• social justice 15–16, 18

• social sciences 159–161, 163

• sociology 168, 171

• soft sciences see social sciences

• Solaris 228

• Solo, Han 230

• Soloviev, Vladimir 62

• Somnium 11

• sonic fidelity 221

• Sourdust 111

• South Sutton 98

• space opera 68

• Spanish history 68

• Spear, Peter 141

• Spearfish, South Dakota 86

• Spirited Away 56

• spiritual: center 62

  • mentor 42–43

  • modality 62

  • nature 63

  • purpose 42

  • process 63

  • quality 61

  • spiritual quest 47

• Spock 208, 216, 218–220

• St. John in Exile 86

• stage 2, 85

• Stage Manager (character) 87–91, 93–95, 98

• Star Trek 1–4, 206–224, 228

• Star Trek (2009) 207–208, 215, 217

• Star Trek (TV series) 119–120, 127, 135

• Star Trek: Beyond 208

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 207, 211–212, 214, 217–218

• Star Trek: Discovery 207–209, 215–222

• Star Trek: Enterprise 207–211, 213–218, 220–221

• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 216

• Star Trek: Generations 212

• Star Trek: Into Darkness 208

• Star Trek: Lower Decks 221

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture 208

• Star Trek: Nemesis 208, 216, 218

• Star Trek: The Next Generation 207, 211–212, 214, 217–218

• Star Trek: The Original Series 207–208, 210–211, 214, 216–221

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 222

• Star Trek: Voyager 207, 211, 214, 217

• Star Wars 1, 211, 228, 231

• Starfleet 213, 220, 222

• Steerpike 102, 112–113, 116

• Stevens, Frances 127

• Stevenson, Robert Louis 42, 106, 127

• Stewart, Patrick 221

• Sting 101

• Stoddard, Joe 93, 96

• Stoker, Bram 122

• storyworld 41–44, 46–48, 50, 52–54, 56, 58–59, 209

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The (novella) 42, 127

• Strindberg, August 62

• subcreation 177–178, 180, 185; see also secondary world

• Subcreation Studies 4, 232

• subcultural capital 212

• submersible sales brochure 182

• Sundering 176, 178–179, 186–187

• suspense 40–41, 43, 48, 49, 64

• Sutton County 98

• Sutton Mills 98

• Swelter 106–107, 112–113

• Swift, Jonathan 7, 10–11, 15, 18

• Sybok 216–217

• symbolic anthropology 49, 54–55, 60

• symbolic, the 50, 53–55

  • algorithm 63

  • community 44

  • discourse 43

  • elements 47

  • expression 56

  • frameworks 43, 49, 51

  • image 50

  • image-symbols 49

  • levels 43, 48, 54

  • logic 41

  • meaning 50

  • operating systems 43

  • orbits 44

  • process 63

  • resonances 47

  • resolution 45

  • systems 42

  • value 44

• Symbolism, an artistic movement 62–64

• symbolism: archaic 49

  • secret symbols 51

  • symbolic-axiological 64

  • symbolic brothers and twins 57

  • symbolic ecosystem 56

  • symbolic naming 53

• syndication 131

• Take a Break! Pinball 151

• Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor, The 10

• Targaryen dynasty 1

• Tarkovsky, Andrei 61

• Taxi Driver 40

• Taylor, Aaron 215, 224

• technology 159–161, 163, 171–173

• television 2, 85, 98, 206, 212, 214, 228–229

• Tempest, The 86

• Tenniel, John 105

• Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture 131

• theater 2, 85–87, 97–98

• Thirkel, Angela 25, 31

  • August Folly 33

  • The Headmistress 32–34

  • Peace Breaks Out 32, 34

• “Tholian Web, The” (TV episode) 217

• threshold 53–54, 56, 58, 61–63

• thriller 40, 48, 59, 64

• Tientsin (Tianjin) 109–110

• Tierra Entertainment see AGD Interactive

• time travel 119, 124–125

• Time Zone 143

• Titus 102, 107–108, 111–116

• Titus Alone 102, 113–116

• Titus Awakes 102

• Titus Groan 100, 102, 103, 111

• Todorov, Tzvetan 11

• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1, 10–11, 18, 50, 56, 69, 112, 211, 226

• Tolstoy, Leo 55

• Tony Award 98

• totem 52

• tragic, the 45, 41, 47, 52, 54, 59, 60

• tragic farce 64

• tragic irony 41, 50, 53, 55

• tragicomedy 48, 59

• transmedia 96, 119, 193, 194, 206, 215

• Travel Narrative 10, 13, 18

• travelogues 4

• Treaty of Versailles 94

• Treknology Encyclopedia 212

• Trivette, Donald B. 143–145

• Trollope, Anthony 3, 21–22, 25, 26

  • Barchester Towers 27–29, 32, 33

  • Framley Parsonage; The Last Chronicle of Barset 26

  • and Ireland 28

  • Parsonage 26

  • The Warden 26, 27, 29–31, 36

• True History 10

• trust 41

• truth 41, 46–47, 50–52, 54, 56, 58–59

• Turgenev, Ivan 44

• Turn of the Screw, The (novella) 126, 128

• Turner, Victor W. 65, 54

• Twain, Mark 13

• Twin Peaks 2–3, 191–205, 230

• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 191, 196, 200, 203

• Twin Peaks: The Return 191–205

• Twitter 220

• Under-River 115

• Underworld 9, 12–13

• USA mirrored in fiction 70–71

• user experience time 228–229

• USS Discovery (spaceship) 215

• USS Enterprise (spaceship) 208, 218–220, 222

• uterine replicators 73

• Utopia 7, 10, 13–18, 110

• value systems 42, 44–46, 49–50, 55; see also axiology

• vampire 123–125, 127–130, 134

• Vampirella 134

• Van Gogh, Vincent 106

• Vance, Jack 75

• Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood 124

• Velázquez, Diego 106

• Vermeer, Johannes 62

• Verne, Jules 11

• video games 2, 231

• virtual reality 2

• Voltaire 11

• Vonnegut, Kurt 64

• Vorkosigan, Aral 70, 71, 73, 77, 78, 79

• Vorkosigan family 67, 68, 70

• Vorkosigan, Miles 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80

• Vorkosigan universe 2

• Vorkosiverse 69–70

• Vulcan High Command 213

• Vygotsky, Lev 46

• Wallace, Art 120

• warrior as theme, symbolism 55

• Watkins, Alfred 32

• Wave 177, 179, 186–188

• Wayward Pines 230

• Webb family 89–93, 96

• Weird Fiction 126

• Weird Tales 126

• Weis, Margaret 3, 175–182, 184–185

• Welles, Orson 101

• Wentworth family 91, 95–96

• White Mountains 89

• whodunit 41, 46, 48, 53–54, 58

• Wide Green World series 67

• Wilde, Oscar 42, 106

• Wilder, Thornton 3, 85–86, 90, 93, 96–99

• Willetts, Stephen 206

• Williams, John 228

• Williams, Ken 138, 148

• Williams, Rebecca 191, 195, 205

• Williams, Roberta 137–138, 139, 143, 147–149, 151–152

• Winnington, G. P. 103, 106, 110

• Winters, Victoria 121–123, 125, 130, 132–134

• Wittman, Henri 225

• Wizard and the Princess 137–141, 147, 149

• Wizard of Oz, The 86

• Wolf, Mark J. P. 122–124, 127, 180, 191, 204–206, 222–224

• Wolf Moon Rising (novel) 134

• Wood, Sam 97

• Woolf, Virginia 22–23

• world-building 24–25, 27, 29–30, 32, 40–43, 46–54, 177, 179–183, 193, 196–197, 200, 202, 209

  • appendices 176–177, 179, 182, 185

  • footnotes 177, 181–184

  • maps 140, 143–146, 176–177, 183–185

  • techniques 177, 179–185

  • textual 177, 180, 183

• world data 228

• world infrastructures 229–231

• world of air 177, 179; see also Arianus

• world of earth 177, 185; see also Abarrach world of stone

• world of fire 175, 177, 179, 184–185; see also Pryan

• World of Five Gods series 67

• world of sky 175, 185; see also Arianus Realm of the Sky

• world of stone 175, 179, 184; see also Abarrach

• world of water 175, 177–179, 184–185; see also Chelestra

• wrap around 143–145

• Wright, Austin Tappan 2, 226

• Writers at Work 86, 90, 98

• Wuthering Heights (novel) 127

• Xar (Patryn) 176, 178, 180, 187

• Yangtze River 109

• Yellow Submarine 116

• Yeoh, Michelle 222

• Zhualy district 88

• Zifnab (Sartan) 177