The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe by George Ochoa, Jeffrey Osier
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Overview: The classic advice to writers is “Write about what you know.” But if you’re a science fiction writer, you must often write about what you do not know: things no one has seen, rooted in a body of knowledge no one person can thoroughly master. That means you are constantly asking yourself the strangest questions: When will the next ice age hit? What color is the Martian sky? How do you splice genes? Does a person exposed to the vacuum of space explode? What kind of ray could blow up a planet? However imaginative your answers will be, they must be at least scientifically plausible. The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe will help you make sure that they are.
The Writer’s Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe is a handbook of science tailored to the needs of science fiction writers. By extension, it is also a companion for SF readers, designers of universes, and all those who speculate about the future. It provides scientific information for the kinds of stories SF writers tell — stories about space travel, life on other planets, future technology, apocalyptic disasters. Unlike most academic and popular books on science, which describe only what is known, The Writer’s Guide also speculates about what is possible. It is fine to read in an astronomy textbook about the spectral class of blue giant stars, but what kind of spaceship can take you there? Could the star support life? How big would it look in the sky of one of its planets? These are the kinds of questions our book sets out to answer.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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