The Alternate World, Our Alternate World
Brent Ryan BellamyInspired by creatives and by critics, I write about worldbuilding as a process, a practice, and a politics. This is worldbuilding considered as a means of understanding contemporary life and what it could be.
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“This womb of things to be and tomb of things that were.”
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Call for Papers: Worldbuilding as a Political Practice
This panel posits that imagining the storyworlds present in narrative texts is an intensely collaborative act—though not one that always feels like collaboration. From escapist activities such as binge-watching and doomscrolling to more eff...
Still Here!
Hi, all! I hope Spring is coming to a close with grace for you. The world is still bleak. I will return to posting every other week (or so), so you can stay tuned if that appeals to you.
My news is that I have signed a contract for Worldb...
Worldbuilding 2025
What a bleak start to the year. Sorry to say it. The fires in LA, ongoing genocide in Gaza, another round with Trump, and here in what’s currently known as Canada the horizon of partisan politics is bleak. I hope and trust that you have som...
Music and Storyworlds
A storyworld project spans Janelle Monáe’s musical oeuvre. The first EP Metropolis: The Chase Suit (2007) opens with “March of the Wolfmasters,” a track that plays on golden-age sf tropes and includes an in-world, diegetic announcement of t...
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