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Q&A How feasible is it to write a story without any worldbuilding?

You might take a look at the book "The Fractal Prince" by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's the second book of a sci-fi trilogy... I happened to read it first, and found that it was really engaging in signif...

posted 7y ago by Bemisawa‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Bemisawa‭ · 2019-12-08T06:08:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
You might take a look at the book "The Fractal Prince" by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's the second book of a sci-fi trilogy... I happened to read it first, and found that it was really engaging in significant part because he never went out of his way to explain the workings of the world. Things were described as if we already knew what they meant, and we had to infer their meanings from context. Now, I'm sure not everyone would like that setup, but in that case I really did.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-02-21T15:10:07Z (over 7 years ago)
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