Revisiting Imaginary Worlds

Chapter 13: 'The First Step into a Smaller World': The Transmedia Economy of Star Wars -- Introduction: 'A Disturbance in the Force' -- A (Short) History of the Star Wars EU: Narrative, Economics, and World-Building -- 'The Movies Are Gospel -- the Rest Is Just Gossip': Franchise Novels, Canon and Authorship -- A New Dawn or Continuity Crisis?: The Lucasfilm Story Group and the Road to The Force Awakens -- Conclusion: Fanagement and Fan-tagonism -- Notes -- Chapter 14: The Enchantment of Visiting Imaginary Worlds and 'Being There': Brand Fandom and the Tertiary World of Media Tourism -- Brand Fandom and 'Authentic' Visits: Haptic Constraints and the Official Staging of Imaginary Worlds -- Tertiary Worlds and 'Authenticating' Visits: Enchantment and the Official Staging of Imaginary Worlds -- Notes -- Chapter 15: The Importance of Overflow and Chunking in World-Building and the Experiencing of Imaginary Worlds -- The Chunking of World Data -- Aids to the Chunking of World Data -- Higher-Level Chunking and Beyond -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Language Makes and Breaks Worlds: China Miéville's Embassytown -- Precedents -- Box Words -- Ambassadors and Hosts -- Language -- Similes and Lies -- Linguistic Apocalypse -- Arieka and the Immer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 17: Destroying Arcadia: The Construction and Deconstruction of Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Notes -- Chapter 18: Bookland: Building England in a Time Travel Universe in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog -- Notes -- Chapter 19: Blocks and Buildings: Virtual Tangibility in Video Game Secondary Worlds -- Background: Building Worlds with Digital Media -- Analysis: Building without Touching -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix -- Worlds Apart: Toward a Canon of Imaginary Worlds -- Index