This book has been in development longer than any other academic work of mine, and has afforded me some very enjoyable research. Portions of this material have appeared in other works and presentations over the years as it was developing, including the presentation “Subcreation: Imaginary Worlds and Embedded World-Views” solicited for the Cranach Institute Spring Speaker Series at Concordia University Wisconsin in 2002; the essay “The Subcreation of Transmedia Worlds” solicited by the editor of the Media Culture issue of Compar(a)ison: An International Journal of Comparative Literature of Fall of 2005; an invited keynote address entitled “A Brief History of Imaginary Worlds” given at the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education ...
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