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MARSHALL RYAN MARESCA

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Creative Outlets That Aren’t Writing

Posted on November 6, 2014

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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astronomy / maps / process of writing / worldbuilding

Worldbuilding: Integrating the Top Down and the Bottom Up

Posted on March 27, 2014

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.  […]

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aliens / astronomy / Banshee / sci-fi / sff / space opera / worldbuilding

Perils of the Science-Fiction Writer: Avoiding Obsolescence

Posted on April 15, 2013

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 […]

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art / astronomy / perils of the writer / promotion / published / Rayguns Over Texas / sci-fi / science / worldbuilding / writing

Future Worldbuilding: Geopolitics in the Interstellar (Part One)

Posted on February 25, 2013

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 […]

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aliens / astronomy / sci-fi / sff / space opera / worldbuilding / writing

Future Worldbuilding: How I Love Spreadsheets and Map Tools

Posted on August 20, 2012

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 […]

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aliens / astronomy / process of writing / sci-fi / science / space opera / space opera manifesto / worldbuilding / writing

Future Worldbuilding: Unfolding the Future

Posted on August 9, 2012

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 […]

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astronomy / influences / process of writing / sci-fi / science / space opera / worldbuilding

Further Smaller Steps For Man

Posted on August 6, 2012

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 […]

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astronomy / long-term plans / sci-fi / science / space opera / space opera manifesto / worldbuilding / writing

Worldbuilding, and the Real World intruding on that

Posted on September 30, 2010

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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astronomy / sci-fi / worldbuilding

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