Fictional Worlds as Causal Systems

Distinguish a causally generative fictional world from a setting that functions only as backdrop.

Apply a source-extraction protocol to a selected passage from Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories,” identifying the technique, underlying principle, adaptable method, and a project exercise it suggests.

Transform one technical feature into a story premise using the chain: technical reality, physical representation, social consequence, institution, culture, conflict, character, story.

Represent one Internet concept at technical, social, and mythological levels, explicitly stating where the fictional analogy departs from the literal mechanism.