I sat at a table full of professors and tried to explain the idea of world-building. This was five years ago. Jeff VanderMeer and I (along with about a dozen others) were scrambling to put the final touches on Shared Worlds, a writing and world-building camp for teenagers at South Carolina’s Wofford College. There was … Continue reading Neither the Billionaire nor the Tramp: Economics in Speculative Fiction by Jeremy L. C. Jones