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Worldbuilding on the Fly? 15 Jul 2013 | 12:13 am
This blog is devoted in substantial measure to world building. The worlds it assists in building may lavish disproportionate effort on fighting space battles, but this is by no means unusual, and is a...
How Much Do We Know? 10 Jun 2013 | 09:06 am
I've finished the first round of editorial revisions to Catherine of Lyonesse, so I'm back to these haunts again after a somewhat excessive absence. The question in the title has come up here before,...
The Balance of Technology 29 Apr 2013 | 07:57 am
In comments on the (relatively!) recent post on monarchy in SF/F I remarked on balance of technology as a key element of successful worldbuilding. Regular readers will not be surprised that the subjec...
Let's Get Whimsical 1 Apr 2013 | 08:47 am
In comments on the last post I stepped into Large Predators enclosure at the zoo by remarking that the idea of 'uplifting' - genetic fiddling to produce animals with human-level intelligence - struck ...
High Kings and Galactic Emperors - Monarchy in Science Fiction and Fantasy 4 Mar 2013 | 09:44 am
Science fiction has been rather curiously given to monarchical government. 'Curiously' in the sense that (at any rate to 'Murricans) it is a form of government associated with the past, and certainly ...
Technology Revolutions, Trends, and Twists 19 Feb 2013 | 08:22 am
Each of the last two posts has spawned a particularly interesting comment thread. I will, a bit arbitrarily, reserve the one about monarchy (and other political systems) for a future post, and take up...
A Force of Nature 12 Feb 2013 | 08:09 am
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden What the former Tor managing editor (now consulting editor) and Making Light blogger says about plot surely applie...
Is Science Fiction Tired? 21 Jan 2013 | 08:32 am
There is much more to say about extrasolar planets, especially given the Kepler findings that are now rolling in. And I intend to say some of it in due course. For now, however, this blog's attention ...
Worlds of Tau Ceti? Habitable For Whom? 6 Jan 2013 | 09:31 am
With the solstitial holidaze safely behind us ... Tau Ceti has an enduring whiff of the Sixties about it. Peace, love, dolphins. The connotations are not a fluke: Tau Ceti was lifted out of back-of-t...
A Song of Fire and Ice 8 Dec 2012 | 08:31 am
As you might guess from the image, this post is not about the George RR Martin fantasy - a work that ought to be right in my wheelhouse, but with which I have had only a glancing encounter.* The subj...
