Saved by Keely Adler
A Necessary Imagination
For those of us struggling and aching to say something different, to be distinctly our own, to reject the stifling rationality of the world around us in favor of the symbolic, the creative, and the divine, creating a world is our path.
Yancey Strickler • Worldbuilding is creative resilience
By foregrounding hope, imagination, agency and creativity, we can get to fully appreciate what it means to be human in a world that oftentimes resists our needs, expectations, and aspirations.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
This is not a book about worldbuilding, or how to make your fantasy novel more credible. It's a book about Worlding. It's about re-enchanting our complex times by creating futures you can believe in, over and over again.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
We’re supposed to be talking about world-making. The idea of making makes me think of making new. Making a new world: a different world: Middle Earth, say, or the planets of science fiction. That’s the work of the fantastic imagination. Or there’s making the world new: making the world different: a utopia or dystopia, the work of the political imag
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