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- The World Building was an office building in Manhattan in New York City. It was located on Park Row. Junk shops on Gold Street were located east of this building. In The Big Good-Bye, one night while on assignment to inspect junk shops, Detective Jim Tierney paused at the front of this building to watch commuters heading home. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye" ) The pages seen in the episode were actually from the detective novel, The Listening Man, by author John A. Moroso. This novel was published in 1924. Information on World Building was from page 197.
- Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story. Constructed worlds frequently have their own aesthetics, above and beyond the aesthetics of the stories taking place in those worlds. Some artists and hobbyists build fictional worlds with no intention of writing any stories in them--at least, none more detailed than historical documents.
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| - List of worlds & bosses
- The World Building was an office building in Manhattan in New York City. It was located on Park Row. Junk shops on Gold Street were located east of this building. In The Big Good-Bye, one night while on assignment to inspect junk shops, Detective Jim Tierney paused at the front of this building to watch commuters heading home. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye" ) The pages seen in the episode were actually from the detective novel, The Listening Man, by author John A. Moroso. This novel was published in 1924. Information on World Building was from page 197.
- Worldbuilding is the process of constructing a fictional universe. Strictly speaking, anything that happens in that universe "builds" it, so "worldbuilding" is only used to describe the invention of fictional details for some reason other than the convenience of a currently ongoing story. A common form of worldbuilding is the creation of history. This could just be a Framing Device for a story told by a historian, but fantasy worlds regularly include historical notes for centuries of warfare and intrigue. Stories can then be written at various points along that timeline, and each of those stories will have a clear relationship to all the others. It makes the writing of serial fiction much easier, especially if the series has multiple authors. If so, the fictional universe is a Shared Universe. The result may sometimes be called a Constructed World, conworld or sub-creation. The term world-building was popularized at science fiction writer's workshops during the 1970s. It connotes a focus on detail and consistency. Many post-The Lord of the Rings fantasy and post-Dune Science Fiction writers use world-building in an attempt to give their stories weight and meaning that they would not have without a well-defined setting. Constructed worlds frequently have their own aesthetics, above and beyond the aesthetics of the stories taking place in those worlds. Some artists and hobbyists build fictional worlds with no intention of writing any stories in them--at least, none more detailed than historical documents.
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