Building a multiverse
Going deep into world building
A couple of weeks ago I looked at world building in fantasy. Here it is in case you missed it:
This week I’m going to look more specifically about the book I’m currently writing, Tales from the Triverse, and the world building techniques I’ve been using. It’s the one I’m publishing every Friday via this newsletter, the central conceit being that there are three separate realities which have collided together. One is 1970s London, another is a far future version of Earth, and the third is a fantasy world called Palinor. Hence ‘triverse’.
What started as a have-my-cake-and-eat-it approach to deciding on my next project has since turned into a detailed setting which seems able to accommodate almost any kind of story (choosing where to point the literary camera is one of the major challenges). It’s the most complicated world I’ve built for a story, so I thought I’d get into the how and the why.
