One can’t just pound out words for eight hours a day, five days a week. Well, maybe some people can, but I sure can’t. So what else do I do […]
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Worldbuilding: Integrating the Top Down and the Bottom Up
I’ll fully admit, the worldbuilding work I’ve done for the Banshee space-opera verse has was done in a strange way. Namely, I did a combination of top-down and bottom-up building. […]
Read morePerils of the Science-Fiction Writer: Avoiding Obsolescence
I’ll admit I’m not a big short story reader, nor am I as versed in the classics as I ought to be. That said, I have a certain fondness for […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Geopolitics in the Interstellar (Part One)
Now, if you’ve been following me for a while, you know I take working out the geography pretty seriously. I’ve built out a 150 light-year radius from Earth, and while […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: How I Love Spreadsheets and Map Tools
All right, so I’ve talked about mapping things out and alien civilizations, but when dealing with things on an interstellar scale, when you’re talking about 4660 stars within a 100 […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Unfolding the Future
One thing I’ve noticed in most “future timelines”– be it for books or television or movies– the worldbuilding tends to gloss over the “near” future. This, of course, makes perfect […]
Read moreFurther Smaller Steps For Man
Yesterday was a pretty amazing day, one that gives me a lot of hope for the future of the human race. For one, Curiosity landed on Mars, and even though […]
Read moreWorldbuilding, and the Real World intruding on that
OK, this is how much of a complete dork of a worldbuilder I am. If you follow astronomy news at all, you’d know that the star Gliese 581 has been […]
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