Table of Contents
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 McPherson
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 McGrath'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
