This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the
Star Trek universe, Thomas More’s classic
Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s
Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like
Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative.
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.