Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the fifth Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.
The papers focus on the theme of worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media.
Featuring papers from Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Martha Elba González- Alcaraz, Allen Stroud, Sarah Mc Pherson, Sébastien Doubinsky, Cheryl Morgan, Peter Garrett, Eugen Bacon, Octavia Cade, Enrico Spadaro, Tatiana Fajardo, Claire Burgess, Ellen Forget, Kevin Cooney, Jyrki Korpua, Rachel Jones.
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction
Francesca T Barbini
No elf is an island. Understanding worldbuilding through system thinking
Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Martha Elba González-Alcaraz
Fragmented Worlds: Glimpse Morsels for the Imagination
Allen Stroud
Relationships with the Land in Fantasy and Science Fiction: Landscape as Identity, Mentor, or Antagonist
Sarah Mc Pherson
Freedom Is Slavery: The sociopolitical implications of worldbuilding in speculative fiction
Sébastien Doubinsky
Worldbuilding with Sex and Gender
Cheryl Morgan
Town Planning in Viriconium: M John Harrison and Worldbuilding
Peter Garrett
Worldbuilding in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
Eugen Bacon
Environmental Change as Catalyst for Worldbuilding in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home
Octavia Cade
Tolkien: When worlds are built within dreams
Enrico Spadaro
Patrick Mc Grath’s Ghastly New York: The Perfect Decaying Cityscape for Restless Minds
Tatiana Fajardo
The Book of Copper and the Anvil of Death: William Blake’s Gothic Creation Myth
Claire Burgess
Canada’s Fantasy Worlds: Exploring Worldbuilding in Urban Fantasy
Ellen Forget
Above the Level of the Everyday: The Estranging and Familiar Worlds of Simon Stålenhag
Kevin Cooney
The Nordic Countries in Worldbuilding: Frozen and Frozen II
Jyrki Korpua
Criminal Cityscapes: Christopher Nolan’s Gotham
Rachel Jones