Exploring Imaginary Worlds

<p>From <i>The Brothers Karamazov </i>to <i>Star Trek </i>to <i>Twin Peaks</i> this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.</p><p>Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars each essay looks at a particular imaginary world in-depth and world-building issues associated with that world. Together the essays explore the relationship between the worlds and the media in which they appear as they examine imaginary worlds in literature television film computer games and theatre with many existing across multiple media simultaneously. The book argues that the media incarnation of a world affects world structure and poses unique obstacles to the act of world-building. The worlds discussed include Nazar Barsetshire Skotopogonievsk the Vorkosigan Universe Grover’s Corners Gormenghast Collinsport Daventry Dune the <i>Death Gate Cycle </i>universe Twin Peaks and the <i>Star Trek </i>galaxy.</p><p>A follow-up to Mark J. P. Wolf ’s field-defining book <i>Building Imaginary Worlds</i> this collection will be of critical interest to students and scholars of popular culture subcreation studies transmedia studies literature and beyond.</p>