Lupoff's Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure (1965). : 160 The term has been used in science fiction and fantasy criticism since appearing in R.A. The term 'world-building' was first used in the Edinburgh Review in December 1820 and appeared in Arthur Eddington's Space Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory (1920) to describe the thinking out of hypothetical worlds with different physical laws. One example of such is the Star Wars Expanded Universe. A fictional universe with works by multiple authors is known as a shared world. For example, science fiction writer Jack Vance set a number of his novels in the Gaean Reach, a fictional region of space. : 106 Some authors of fiction set multiple works in the same world. Prior to 1900 most worldbuilding was conducted by novelists, who could leave imagination of the fictional setting in part to the reader. : 104 World building exists in novels, tabletop role-playing games, and visual media such as films, video games and comics. The world could encompass different planets spanning vast distances of space or be limited in scope to a single small village. This may include social customs as well as invented languages for the world. Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a backstory, flora, fauna, inhabitants, technology and often if writing speculative fiction, different races.

Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers.

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. A map of Middle-earth from the works of J.

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