Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners
Image from the graphic novel version of Ringworld by Larry Niven
Speculative fiction writers talk endlessly about worldbuilding, which sounds like it ought to involve a near-infinite amount of drywall. What is worldbuilding? And why is it so important? Plus we talk to author K. Tempest Bradford about the Writing the Other workshops and her brand new genre, Pyramidpunk!
Notes, citations, etc.
K. Tempest Bradford (author)
K. Tempest Bradford is Creating Afro-Futurist Fiction (Patreon)
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward (book)
The Writing the Other workshops
J.R.R. Tolkien (author)
Adaptation (movie)
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (book)
Star Wars (series)
Harry Potter (series)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (book)
And Other Disasters, short stories by Malka Older
Dungeons and Dragons (game)
Ringworld by Larry Niven (book)
...And Other Disasters by Malka Older (story collection)
Ursula K. Le Guin (author)
portal fantasies, secondary world fantasies and epic fantasies
Nisi Shawl (writer)
Steven Barnes (writer)
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Star Trek: The Original Series
"Androids and Allegory" (essay by K. Tempest Bradford)
"Say, She Toy" by Chesya Burke (short story at Apex Magazine)
Ancient Aliens (TV show)