Tag: worldbuilding
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Build your own habitable planet -available tools
Everybody familiar with SF knows about the habitable zone, at least the basics. It’s that area around a star where life is possible. A…
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Adventure & Travel Literature -reading suggestions
There are many reasons you might be interested in reading non-fiction that deals with travels and adventure in general. For one, you can genuinely…
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Analysing the stars out there with SAOImage DS9 (a powerful tool)
Getting to know the space out there in a more scientific way has never been as simple (I wouldn’t say easy, since it still…
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Sun parties on Mercury
“The sun is always just about to rise. Mercury rotates so slowly that you can walk fast enough over its rocky surface to stay…
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Under a Venusian sky
This is the second post of the series “how your sky looks when observed from another planet”. I have already briefly spoken about the…
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Skygazing in the Solar System – what does it look like?
One thing I always wondered is how the sky looks when observed from another planet; and as a matter of fact, only in few…
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Worldbuilding for SF – A Writer’s Guide, review
“The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you often write about what you…
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Tools for sky lovers (and SF worldbuilders) – eSky
I have already written some time ago about tools for exploring the night sky and find your way around. Today I want to talk…
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Worldbuilding for historical fiction – travels
That worldbuilding is complicated and time-consuming is something every creator of fiction, no matter the media adopted, knows well. Creating detailed and coherent fantasy…