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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8908409" data-attributes="member: 6779310">They are, but they're not the same as novels, prose, nor movies, at least, generally.Look at shows like Walking with Dinosaurs, books like Atlas of Middle Earth, Star Fleet Technical Manual, Star Wars Essential Atlas (SW EA),&nbsp; A Tour of the Galaxy, or and of the Terran Trade Authority series' books.Walking with Dinosaurs is speculative (and now outdated, due to increased knowledge) work,&nbsp; building a narrative and setting from archaeological descriptions, but, it really is every bit as fictional as Jurassic Park; it's just better researched and actively trying not to screw it up.Atlas of Middle Earth is presented as non-fiction about a fictional place. So also is the&nbsp; SW EA, and the Atlas of Pern. But SW EA does add a bit of prose written in the style of a history text...A Tour of the Galaxy is presented as if a scrapbook... but it tells a story in various things that shouldn't be in a normal person's scrapbook... Think of it as a scrapbook update built by an archivist&nbsp; with access to declassified records and the scrapbook of the main characters.... The TTA series presents as a series of historical&nbsp; texts...And the SFTM is&nbsp; presented as a recovered leak from (presumably) the Enterprise computer dropping a bit of data before Uhura realized Starfleet wasn't there. (Tomorrow is Yesterday ST[TOS] s1 e21)All of those are worldbuilding efforts that aren't games, nor novels, nor movies, nor television. They're Fiction presented in a manner consistent with non-fiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8908409, member: 6779310"] They are, but they're not the same as novels, prose, nor movies, at least, generally. Look at shows like [I][U]Walking with Dinosaurs[/U][/I], books like [I][U]Atlas of Middle Earth[/U][/I], [I][U]Star Fleet Technical Manual[/U][/I], [I][U]Star Wars Essential Atlas[/U] [/I](SW EA), [I][U]A Tour of the Galaxy[/U][/I], or and of the [I]Terran Trade Authority[/I] series' books. Walking with Dinosaurs is speculative (and now outdated, due to increased knowledge) work, building a narrative and setting from archaeological descriptions, but, it really is every bit as fictional as [I][U]Jurassic Park[/U][/I]; it's just better researched and actively trying not to screw it up. [I][U]Atlas of Middle Earth[/U][/I] is presented as non-fiction about a fictional place. So also is the [I][U]SW EA[/U][/I], and the [I][U]Atlas of Pern[/U][/I]. But [I][U]SW EA[/U][/I] does add a bit of prose written in the style of a history text... [I][U]A Tour of the Galaxy[/U][/I] is presented as if a scrapbook... but it tells a story in various things that shouldn't be in a normal person's scrapbook... Think of it as a scrapbook update built by an archivist with access to declassified records and the scrapbook of the main characters.... The TTA series presents as a series of historical texts... And the SFTM is presented as a recovered leak from (presumably) the Enterprise computer dropping a bit of data before Uhura realized Starfleet wasn't there. ([I][U]Tomorrow is Yesterday[/U][/I] ST[TOS] s1 e21) All of those are worldbuilding efforts that aren't games, nor novels, nor movies, nor television. They're Fiction presented in a manner consistent with non-fiction. [/QUOTE]

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