Perspectives on World Building

Helen Marshall

A Flare of Light or The Great Clomping Foot of Nerdism? M. John Harrison’s Radical Approach to Worldbuilding

This paper explores M. John Harrison’s provocative approach to a language-oriented worldbuilding as developed in Viriconium, a collection of his short novels and stories.This paper explores M. John Harrison’s provocative approach to a language-oriented worldbuilding as developed in Viriconium, a collection of his short novels and stories.

Barbara Postema

Wordless Worldbuilding: SFF Storyworlds in Comics

This paper will discuss several science fiction comics to demonstrate some of the visual methods used for worldbuilding in comics, from iconography to transmedia techniques.