Brian Attebery

1 Quotation from Brian Attebery

world-building n. 1980 B. Attebery Fantasy Tradition in American Literature viii. 166 In The Wind’s Twelve Quarters Le Guin included two short stories which took place in a world, as yet unnamed, of islands, dragons, and wizardry. Using some of the techniques of science fiction world building and others learned from Tolkien, she showed us a few scenes, conjured up a few sensations, that suggested an entire Other World.