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MARSHALL RYAN MARESCA

Category: space opera manifesto

Future Worldbuilding: Geopolitics in the Interstellar (Part Two))

Posted on February 28, 2013

Last time, I talked about working out every culture’s homeworld, how advanced they are, and when they achieved FTL tech.  So, knowing that, the rest is simple, right?  Whoever has […]

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Future Worldbuilding: Aliens, Form follows Function

Posted on August 27, 2012

Alien life can take all sorts of shapes and sizes.  When it comes to the various flora and fauna of other worlds, there’s no limit to where your imagination can […]

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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: New Life, New Civilizations and the Mos Eisley Cantina

Posted on August 16, 2012

What’s a Space Opera without some aliens?*  I’m firmly of the opinion that once you’ve breached the idea of humans going into space, traveling faster than light, aliens are an […]

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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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