geofiction
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From geo- + fiction. Ostensibly coined by future members of the Dutch Geofiction Association (founded 1984).
Noun[edit]
geofiction (uncountable)
- The conception and creation of a fictional cartographic design that is the setting of a work of fiction or of one's imagination; worldbuilding.
- 2011, Stijn Reijnders, Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 111:
- It may, however, be regarded as typical that this is often the type of story in which undue attention is paid to the description of the 'ficticious' [sic] geographical environment (a striking example being the geofiction of The Lord of the Rings).