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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Worlds of Words
1 The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg: Subcreation and Social Criticism
2 ‘A Little Bit of England Which I Have Myself Created’: Creating Barsetshire across Forms, Genres, Time, and Authors
3 Mythopoetic Suspense, Eschatology and Misterium: World-Building Lessons from Dostoevsky
4 Building the Vorkosigan Universe
Audiovisual Worlds
5 Our World: World-Building in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
6 “Suckled on Shadows”: States of Decay in Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast Novels
7 The Gothic World-Building of Dark Shadows
8 Daventry and the Worlds of King’s Quest
Transmedia Worlds
9 The Softer Side of Dune: The Impact of the Social Sciences on World-Building
10 Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Balance and Interconnectivity in the Fractured Worlds of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s The Death Gate Cycle
11 Welcome to the “Second-stage” Lynchverse Twin Peaks: The Return and the Impossibility of Return Vs. Getting a Return
12 The Fault in Our Star Trek: (Dis)Continuity Mapping, Textual Conservationism, and the Perils of Prequelization
Appendix: On Measuring and Comparing Imaginary Worlds
Index
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