The best fantasy/sci-fi literature involves a lot of world building.
For some, the world building came first and the stories were an offshoot of that.
Tolkien needed a world and stories to bring life to the languages he was inventing.
Raymond E Feist's Midkemia was a massive collaborative effort for a RPG world. He has stated: "I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. At least that's how I look at it."
Multi-agent LLM systems with persistent memory are actually making significant progress on world-building coherence, maintaining consistency across thousands of interactions while incrementally developing complex fictional universes.
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The best fantasy/sci-fi literature involves a lot of world building.
For some, the world building came first and the stories were an offshoot of that.
Tolkien needed a world and stories to bring life to the languages he was inventing.
Raymond E Feist's Midkemia was a massive collaborative effort for a RPG world. He has stated: "I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. At least that's how I look at it."
This is what you won't see AI doing...yet.
Multi-agent LLM systems with persistent memory are actually making significant progress on world-building coherence, maintaining consistency across thousands of interactions while incrementally developing complex fictional universes.
World building...is just having a really large context window.