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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Future Worldbuilding: New Life, New Civilizations and the Mos Eisley Cantina
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 […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Geography of the Interstellar
I’m sure my credentials as something of a map geek when it comes to worldbuilding are well established. I don’t know one can seriously do worldbuilding without a sense of […]
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 moreAugust and Everything After
And now summer feels like it’s coming to a close, even though that’s really not the case. August always feels like “almost over”. Having finished with the con probably adds […]
Read moreArmadilloCon After Report
So now, it’s all over. I’m still not recovered yet, so some of this may be incoherent. Friday we first had the Writers’ Workshop, which went very well. From the […]
Read moreIt’s Thursday already?
Since 2011 is almost over, time for an update on State of the Writer. From my last update: Thorn of Dentonhill (Book 1 of Veranix series): Shopping. I know it’s at […]
Read moreInterstellar Worldbuilding: You are who your neighbors make you
My space opera stuff is all still in its building and outlining phase, but every once in a while I do a big push of figuring stuff out. And when […]
Read moreSpace Opera vs. Steampunk
A friend of mine sometimes refers to writing as “going into the word mines”, which is a very nice metaphor, if I do say so myself. Not only because it […]
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