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Welcome to The Worldbuilder’s Tavern — where great books meet creative minds.Twice a month, we explore the worlds inside your favourite sci-fi and fantasy novels and build our own right alongside them. Whether you’re constructing your next novel, TTRPG setting, or just love speculative fiction, pull up a chair at the Tavern!
Unknown Host hosts The Worldbuilder’s Tavern, a arts show with 76 episodes published.
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a zombie outbreak by answering these nine questions: What quintessential parts of zombie lore must be preserved to make it recognizable as a zombie? What is caus
Join us for a chat about the worldbuilding in the adult horror novel What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher. We discuss gross mushrooms, how the author uses line level techniques to create a sense of dread and deliver worl
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a space colony by answering these six questions: Why are people leaving Earth to establish a colony on another planet? What planet are they colonizing? Why that
Join us for a chat about the worldbuilding in the adult space opera Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) by James S.A. Corey. We discuss the mystery/noir feeling of Miller's chapters, how the two narrators are foils for each
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a sea creature by answering these eight questions: What type of being is the sea creature—biological, spiritual, celestial, etc.? What does its body look like? H
Join us for a chat about the worldbuilding in the YA mythological fantasy Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen. We discuss African and Yoruba mythology, gods, fairy tale retellings, "The Little Mermaid," foreshadowing, and m
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a spacecraft by answering these ten questions: What is the purpose of the craft? What scale of distance does this craft travel? Does it orbit a single planet? Tr
Join us for a chat about the worldbuilding in the comedic sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. We discuss political humour, absurdism, aliens, the importance of writing craft, and more. Vis
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise as we create a superpower-based magic system by answering these eight questions: Are the superpowers based on magic or science or both? Do the powers have a theme to them? Do
Join us for a chat about the writing and worldbuilding in the fantasy murder mystery novel Voyage of the Damned by Frances White. We discuss genre blends, how to help readers keep track of multiple characters, what makes
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise in creating a cataclysmic event! Here are the ten questions we answered in this episode, which can help guide you in building your own cataclysm. What is the nature of the ev
Join us for a chat about the writing and worldbuilding in the horror novel Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle. We discuss luck and math as a magic system, how people react to trauma, and the wonderful weirdness of horror. Visit t
Join us for a hands-on worldbuilding exercise in creating a dragon! Here are the seven questions we answered in this episode, which can help guide you in building your own dragon. What hallmarks of traditional dragons ar
Join us for a chat about the writing and worldbuilding in the fantasy novel, A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. We discuss dragons as the topic of academic study, worldbuilding inspired by Victorian England,
In this episode, we're talking about writing and worldbuilding in the post-apocalyptic with zombies TV show (based on the video game series of the same name), The Last of Us. Proprietor's Pick: The Girl with All the Gift
In this episode, we're talking about writing and worldbuilding in the paranormal romance novel Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Proprietor's Pick: Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma (Disclosure: we are a Bookshop.org affiliate, s
In this episode, we're talking about the writing and worldbuilding in the children's fantasy (with vikings) movie How to Train Your Dragon. Proprietor's Pick: Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Disclosure: we are
In this episode, we're talking about the writing and worldbuilding in the urban fantasy novel Jade City by Fonda Lee. (Disclosure: we are a Bookshop.org affiliate, so if you purchase through these links, we will earn a s
In this episode, we're talking about the writing and worldbuilding in the sci-fi alien invasion series Animorphs by K.A. Applegate. Proprietor's Pick: Ice Wolves by Amie Kaufman (Disclosure: we are a Bookshop.org affilia
In this episode, we're talking about the writing and worldbuilding in the fantasy novel The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch . Proprietor's Pick: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (Disclosure: we are a Bookshop.or
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