Setting: Fandom tangental, but the only relevant part is that it's just like our world until the late 1990's, where the whole world is united basically overnight into a largely peacful magical kingdom. From there I'm taking a sci-fi route and throwing people onto multiple generation/colony ships and sending them out into the universe, never to ( Read more... )

NASA has a page for us space nerds and sci-fi writers! It's says: "The following items are found in science fiction literature as technologies useful in authoring a plausible setting for a sci-fi story"

SCIENCE FICTION SPACE TECHNOLOGY TERMSThere doesn't seem to be a tag for space re: rockets and things, or for NASA...or am I overlooking? Any ( Read more... )

This relates to my last question, which was here.

I believe I have settled on a planet for my human-like aliens to come from - Tau Ceti f. This choice brings up a whole new set of questions based on this information:

Assuming that Tau Ceti f is a terrestrial planet, it would likely be at least 2.3 times larger in size than the Earth. Assuming an ( Read more... )

I'm currently working on making some changes to an original race of aliens that are very humanoid, as well as the mixed race children they had with Earthlings. For some variety, I was hoping to make it that these aliens breathed something other than oxygen, but I'm having a great deal of trouble figuring out what sort of changes that might make to ( Read more... )

Searched: "If earth had rings", and simple variations of that ( Read more... )

I'm designing a country, let's call it A, that's in the process of shifting from a slave society to a non-slave society as a result of shifting economics rather than a moral or other push towards legal reform. It's been this way for a while, and it's been a gradual enough change that the only resistance has been from members of nobility who don't ( Read more... )

Type - webcomic/graphic novel ( Read more... )

Setting: A fictional world of my own devising, with existing (but limited) magic and a wide variation in technology (which ties more into the plot than it does to the question I have). The most important thing for my question is land ( Read more... )

My story is sci-fi set on a fictional colonized planet. Most of the inhabited area of the planet (not a very large area) is a horrendous desert and I want it to have a long day but a short night. (It's inhabited by humans so it needs a reasonably similar gravity and atmosphere to Earth.) The planet, sometime in its history, was hit by a large ( Read more... )

Setting: Fantasy AU with some connections to the real world, 1800's level of technology ( Read more... )