World building spices real physical and social facts with the author’s imagination to create a civilization, a political structure, a culture and zeitgeist as backdrop and influence to story. Writers define world-building as the process of constructing an imaginary world, usually associated with a fictional universe.
One’s Aspect to the Sun, by Sherry D. Ramsey, isn’t a good book. It isn’t even an interestingly bad book I might enjoy in a “hated it but it made me think” way.
There’s something beautiful about the live nature of theatre, that makes you feel that you’ve trespassed or that you’ve been invited
Information from a discussion about the ancient Mayans and ways of using ancient cultures for world-building.
when I read, I notice what people are eating. This is one of those little clues that can tell you a lot about how a fictional world is constructed and how its author sees it.
Anyway, I thought maybe some of you might be interested in the process of writing a 50,000 word novel in the span of 30 days
After Earth – a sci fi film masquerading as a science fiction film
This book kicks posterior. It’s a wild turbo-boosted ride through a shockingly plausible dystopia.
Few characters, and people, start off with the intention of winding up where they do. There are the few who succeed at their childhood dreams. The astronauts, the politicians, the firefighters (though I imagine these […]
Me gustaba mucho la serie de TV llamada “Héroes.” Cuentan que su fracaso se debió a que, como los televidentes se enamoraron tanto de los carismáticos personajes, a partir de la segunda temporada, para hacerlos […]
I was getting all excited last night over the idea of making my next purse. I can work with leather, and I don’t want something that looks like what everyone else has, so… But as […]
Maybe it’s time to donate to SETI … and vote for politicians who believe that Gross National Happiness is less important than Gross National Aerospace Investment.
Ten works from ancient history that every science fiction reader should be familiar with.
Fantasy cartography is like playing SimCity; first you create and then you take an almost gleeful joy in the destruction before rebuilding from the ashes.
Like going on a brewery tour, except at this farm, the vats are full of meat.
SF theatre can draw upon the symbolic imagery that Theatre can house – a relatively small transformative space where a spear can become the symbol of an army, a chair that becomes someone’s lover or family member
Fantasy cartography isn’t new, of course, from Lord of the Rings to Throne of the Crescent Moon, maps help readers to connect with the universe, to make unfamiliar locales a little more familiar. It’s always fun when there’s a heroic journey involved, be it a quest to dump a shiny bracelet in fiery nastiness or running from doom.
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