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Let’s Talk Worldbuilding: White Room! White Room!

May 4, 2026

You can do all the complex and intricate worldbuilding you want. You can have civilizations developed, with customs, languages, and characters. And you will fall on your face as a…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding: Geography Makes Your World

March 29, 2026

Your fantasy or science fiction world needs to be grounded in reality. You need to give as detailed a map as possible, or as you need to carry the storyline.…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding: Let’s All Start Rubbing Blue Mud in Our Navels

March 2, 2026

In designing your world, you are going to be confronted with the need to deal with sex and sexuality, ethics, mores, customs and how your characters react in sexually charged…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding – Let’s All Start Rubbing Blue Mud in Our Navels

March 2, 2026

by Walt Boyes In designing your world, you are going to be confronted with the need to deal with sex and sexuality, ethics, mores, customs and how your characters react…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding: Just how big is your fantasy world?

February 4, 2026

by Walt Boyes What makes great fantasy novels go is not the thud and blunder of battles. You can find that in any MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role-playing game). What…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding: Mapping Alternate History and Time Travel Tales

October 28, 2025

by Ray Tabler (Kindly filling in for Walt Boyes who is dealing with a family illness) Reprinted with permission from https://raytabler.substack.com/ One of the reasons I attend science fiction conventions…

Let’s Talk Worldbuilding by Walt Boyes: A Debut Column

August 28, 2025

by Walt Boyes In this series of columns, we’ll look at the world you want to build on several axes. What is the geography? How many nations or cultures does…