The term "secondary world" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing fantasy stories, or any narratives that take place in a fictional world that is distinct from the real world. For example, "The characters of The Lord of the Rings live in a secondary world of Middle Earth, a place that is completely separate from our own."
Finally there is a trio of masters, each the architect of a complete secondary world.
The important thing about this particular secondary world is that it is symbiotic with the real modern world.
With the World Cup in 2017 and 2021, that leaves 2019 for an inaugural secondary world tournament and another in 2023.
Game of Thrones demonstrated you could do something dark and shocking and very unheroic within the core epic fantasy secondary world market".
But she simply described, conscientiously if a little irritably, what she saw: "a secondary secondary world, made up of intelligently patchworked derivative motifs from all sorts of children's literature".
The vein of "high fantasy" of the more traditional variety, involving magic and the construction of a legendary secondary world, was represented by the five highly praised volumes of the Prydain cycle (1964 68) by Newbery Medal winner Lloyd Alexander.
Auden and Tolkien wrote about the skills of inventing "secondary worlds".
The third of these classic secondary worlds is in a sense not a creation of fantasy.
Dreams of such beings from other "secondary worlds", beneath the sea or from the sky, fill the stories of the Arabian Nights as well as Dvořák's opera Rusalka and "The Little Mermaid".
It has been the fate of many poets to find that the world is at once too much and not enough, to be driven to suicide and madness, or to the creation of hermetic works or mythologies, secondary worlds that overlay or displace the unaccommodating original.
Tolkien created the better part of his secondary fantasy world during World War II, allowing simple connections to be drawn between Mordor and fascism.
