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Our world is a planet where human beings have formed many societies. [changed]

Nobody knows whether there are intelligent beings on other worlds. There are about 1 septillion (1024) worlds in the universe. [removed]

Authors sometimes invent new worlds. They use these worlds as the settings for their stories. Some authors invent worlds that have magic. [added]

World literature

I am more and more convinced that poetry is the universal possession of personkind, revealing itself everywhere and at all times in hundreds and hundreds of men. . . . I therefore like to look about me in foreign nations, and advise everyone to do the same. National literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of world literature is at hand. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1827 [moved and altered]

World literature is literature that is read by people all over our world. World literature is different from national literature. [moved and removed]

Worlds in literature

Characters in science fiction stories may travel to other worlds

Creating a different world is a literary device used by creators to illustrate ideas. By placing the story in the setting of a different world, the author can change the way that things happen. [split and altered]

For example, the author might imagine a world that has very little water or a world that has very little dry land. Deciding what a world looks like and how the world works is called world-building. Thinking about their world helps the author make good choices about what happens to the characters in the story. Some authors think about many details, such as what languages the characters speak and what the architecture is on the world. [split]