Season 1, Episode 8: Worldbuilding ft. Ursula Whitcher

Worldbuilding is a critical element of speculative fiction—but how do you make an imaginary world as feel as real and vibrant as our own? We sit down with Ursula Whitcher—poet, mathematician, knitter, and author of North Continent Ribbon—to talk about the process of creating a fictional world.

Show notes:

• North Continent Ribbon (Neon Hemlock Press)
• Yarntheory
• Yarntheory.bsky.social
• Prisoners of Gravity on Worldbuilding
• Rite Gud: Against Worldbuilding

Books:

• The Hainish Cycle – Ursula K. LeGuin
• A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
• Green-Sky Trilogy – Zilpha Keatley-Snyder
• Signal To Noise – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Prophet – Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald
• The Sun Chronicles and Crown of Stars – Kate Elliott