What world will you create?
You live in a world, a culture, and a place where there are particular ideas and norms about gender, sexuality, and attraction. These are valuable and important ideas, but they are just that: ideas.
Imagine Queer Worlds leads aspiring and experienced worldbuilders alike on a journey: to rethink the drawing board and build a world where nothing is assumed. To radically redefine and dismantle the norms of fiction and in doing so, creating better, more interesting stories. It will guide creators on a path to imagine how the fictional societies, cultures, and environments they craft engage with the personal question of sex, gender, attraction, and more - and how those ideas and norms shape the characters who live them.
In building an entirely new world, there lies so much potential. Writers and game masters piece together their ideas of magic, technology, culture, geography - and every piece of their world shapes the player characters who live in it and the challenges they face on their adventures. These worlds are built from the ground up, and they could do or say anything about the complex concepts of gender, sexuality, and attraction - but so many of them don’t, opting for worlds that, in these regards, look nearly identical to ours.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Just as a fictional world might contain silicone-based lifeforms or food that grows in the palm of your hand, so too might it contain a species with three fluid sexes, a culture where each gender wears a different metal, or a place where sexual attraction to multiple genders is considered the default.
The Deck Of Queer Worlds will lead you to imagine how fictional societies, cultures and environments you craft engage with the personal questions of sex, gender and attraction, and more - and how those ideas and norms shape the characters who live them. Fully usable as either a deck of playing cards or a standalone worldbuilding exercise, these cards are beautifully hand-illustrated by Rick Hershey and filled with thoughtful prompts fopr aspiring worldbuilders.
Self-published by the authors
USA Import
Staple-stitch binding
26 color pages
A4 format
Incl. card deck of 62 cards
What world will you create?
You live in a world, a culture, and a place where there are particular ideas and norms about gender, sexuality, and attraction. These are valuable and important ideas, but they are just that: ideas.
Imagine Queer Worlds leads aspiring and experienced worldbuilders alike on a journey: to rethink the drawing board and build a world where nothing is assumed. To radically redefine and dismantle the norms of fiction and in doing so, creating better, more interesting stories. It will guide creators on a path to imagine how the fictional societies, cultures, and environments they craft engage with the personal question of sex, gender, attraction, and more - and how those ideas and norms shape the characters who live them.
In building an entirely new world, there lies so much potential. Writers and game masters piece together their ideas of magic, technology, culture, geography - and every piece of their world shapes the player characters who live in it and the challenges they face on their adventures. These worlds are built from the ground up, and they could do or say anything about the complex concepts of gender, sexuality, and attraction - but so many of them don’t, opting for worlds that, in these regards, look nearly identical to ours.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Just as a fictional world might contain silicone-based lifeforms or food that grows in the palm of your hand, so too might it contain a species with three fluid sexes, a culture where each gender wears a different metal, or a place where sexual attraction to multiple genders is considered the default.
The Deck Of Queer Worlds will lead you to imagine how fictional societies, cultures and environments you craft engage with the personal questions of sex, gender and attraction, and more - and how those ideas and norms shape the characters who live them. Fully usable as either a deck of playing cards or a standalone worldbuilding exercise, these cards are beautifully hand-illustrated by Rick Hershey and filled with thoughtful prompts fopr aspiring worldbuilders.
Self-published by the authors
USA Import
Staple-stitch binding
26 color pages
A4 format
Incl. card deck of 62 cards
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