The VM as Outsider Art

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Worldbuilding is, according to the Wiki, "the process of constructing a world, originally an imaginary one, sometimes associated with a fictional universe.[1] Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers.[2] Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a backstory, flora, fauna, inhabitants, technology and often if writing speculative fiction, different races. This may include social customs as well as invented languages for the world."

The closest in medieval literature would be Marco Polo's and John Mandeville's travels: they had a lot of fantastical elements but they were partly factual, and considered as factual.

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