World-Building (Science Fiction Writing Series)

Bova, Ben, Gillett, Stephen L.

ISBN 10: 0898797071 / ISBN 13: 9780898797077

Published by Writers Digest Books, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World-Building (Science Fiction Writing Series)
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898797071
• ISBN 13: 9780898797077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With Stephen Gillett's help, you'll be on solid ground, no matter what kinds of worlds you create for your science fiction.
World-Building explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll give your worlds the pull of gravity, aware of the effects on inhabitants and the planets themselves. Mix elements and build planets with chemically credible, geologically accurate characteristics - and anomalies - that affect those who live there. Create planetary "engines," convincing atmospheres and fact-based weather patterns. Colonize a truly weird world: ancient Earth. Explore our neighboring planets and their satellites for SF possibilities. Light and heat your landscapes with the right types of stars. See how things might be on a "chloroxygen" world and other hypothetical places.
In this book, you'll follow calculations, read tables, view diagrams, learn what forces are at work in the universe, and see how you can harness them to give realism to the fantasy in your storytelling.

About the Author

Stephen L. Gillett is a research associate at the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno.