One World, Many Stories: The Value of Shared Universes Have you ever finished a book and wished you could stay in its world a little longer? Maybe you wanted to know what happened beyond the town where the story took place. Maybe a minor character caught your attention. Or maybe the author created a world so interesting that one person’s journey couldn’t possibly satisfy your curiosity. That is part of the appeal of a shared world. A shared world, or shared universe, is a setting where multiple stories exist within the same fictional reality. Those stories may come from one author or many, with different characters, locations, and conflicts connected…