Disaster Response and Worldbuilding: 50 Questions For Creatives: Way With Worlds, #21

By Steven Savage

We're used to disaster response being part of our lives.  But what about our fictional settings?  How do our characters handle crises, recover from disaster, and learn?

 

This book is a helpful series of 50 questions, as well as follow-up exercises and more, to help you think about how people respond to disasters in your setting - and why.  From prediction to rebuilding, education to pop culture, this book walks you through the important questions with helpful advice, suggested exercises, and more.

 

Make sure disaster response in your world is believably good – or disastrous!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steven Savage
• Release date: Feb 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215511206

Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a biologist, natural history writer, lecturer, and an associate member of the Institute of Biology in England. He teaches about ocean biology and has written more than thirty-seven natural history books for children.

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Table of Contents

Disaster Response and Worldbuilding:

Other Books by Steven Savage

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Introduction

How To Use This Book

The Questions

Real Disasters

Predictability

Preparation

Immediate Response

Long-Term Response

Resources

Education and Information

Specific Studies and Improvement

Popular Culture

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About The Author

Disaster Response and Worldbuilding:

50 Questions For Creatives

(The Way With Worlds Series)

(First Edition)

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Copyright © 2023 by Steven Savage

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Way With Worlds Minibook Series

The Creativity Series

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The Art Of The Brainstorm Book

The Focused Fandom Series

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Quest For Employment

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Introduction

Disasters are part of our life – and part of our fiction. We write about them both because they exist, and because those times of chaos provide us tales of adventure, of caution, and human interest. Some of the fictions we write have to deal with the response to these disasters.

This book is about handling fictional disasters in fiction.

This book is the sequel to three previous books – on created disasters, natural disasters, and information disasters like propaganda. It explores how disaster response is part of your fictional setting, and asks questions to make sure it’s believable. Whether you read any of the first books or just wanted to focus on this, this is a friendly bit of coaching when disaster response is your focus.

How did this come about? Many years ago, I published a column series on worldbuilding called Way With Worlds, taking what I'd learned from writing, gaming, and coaching people. Years later, I revived and re-wrote it, including knowledge I'd gained from various projects and experiences. After that re-write, it became a book series because I wanted to preserve it in a more accessible form.

As I worked on those books,