#SciFiSeptember 30: I love Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch universe: throwaway lines about arachnoid transhumans, people who think the "antique, cultured accent" of the upper-class Radchaai is funny because they (rightfully) sound like cartoon villains, casually mentioning the Radch is a DYSON SPHERE...
#SciFiSeptember 29: The stations the crew of the Coreward Baker visit tend to have big 'abandoned mall' energy or feature the alien equivalent of Panda Express. Still, you can book passage to good systems FROM them, and a human can probably talk their way onto someone's ship for free.
#SciFiSeptember 26: Nope, no one’s ever figured out artificial life that wasn’t based on a biological entity. Kinda creepy, if you think about it.
Thank you @jennelikejennay.bsky.social for hosting #SciFiSeptember! It was a lot of fun and nice to have something specifically sci-fi focused. 💫
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SciFi September prompts by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social There are 30 prompts. The prompt for today (September 30) reads "A sci-fi book you've read with great worldbuilding".
A GREAT SCI-FI BOOK
I'd like to recommend Skylark in the Fog by @helynalc.bsky.social. This chonker scifi story has phenomenal worldbuilding and I enjoyed reading it very much.
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#SciFiSeptember day 30
Gotta shout out Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga. It's so deep and wide: cultures with customs and history and clothes all meshing together, and at the same time many DIFFERENT ones that all get fleshed out.
#SciFiSeptember Day 27: Attitudes towards robots: what, you're going to water your crops and carry your cargo crates by hand? Yeah, we also have translators and artificial gravity now, hippie.
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30. A sci-fi book you've read with great worldbuilding
Controversial opinion, but Ready Player One. 🫣 I really liked the worldbuilding, in game and real world. A fun and interesting take on the genre.
The movie was absolute ass though.
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#SciFiSeptember 30: Well, I've just started reading The Expanse and the worldbuilding seems pretty good so far. Definitely on the dystopian side, though. Anyway, thank you @jennelikejennay.bsky.social for hosting this. It was fun!
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30. Am I a hack and fraud if I just say Dune?😅 Most of my sci-fi is film and TV, and that book just scratches a particular itch not much else does, especially hard, grounded stuff. I really vibe with the quasi-spiritual and simultaneously alien yet regressive feel of the universe.
#SciFiSeptember Day 30
I'm gonna have to say both Dune and Hyperion have amazing worldbuilding in them. Just plain sink-your-teeth-in sort of storytelling. Probably not a surprise to anyone, as both these series are pretty well established lol
Worldbuilding isn't my top need in a read, but some of my faves who get it right are:
• Marissa Meyer's Cinder series
• David Weber (anything)
• Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE
• S.J. Kincaid's Diabolic trilogy
• Alan Dean Foster's Mother-Not series
• Andre Norton (period)
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Sci-fi September: a worldbuilding prompt event hosted by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social Week 1: Space 1. What’s the scale of your story— one planet, one star, a galaxy? 2. Transportation method 3. An important spaceship 4. Faster-than-light travel 5. How does space travel feel? 6. Spacewalks 7. Snippet: STAR Week 2: Aliens 8. Are there sapient aliens? 9. Different kinds of aliens 10. How different are they from humans? 11. Interspecies communication 12. Alien animals and plants 13. Whole alien ecosystems 14. Snippet: STRANGE Week 3: Tech 15. Long-distance communication 16. Kinds of media 17. Body alterations and cyborg implants 18. Janky gadgets 19. Tech with a harmful cost 20. Forbidden tech 21. Snippet: DEVICE Week 4: Robots 22. Is there real artificial intelligence? 23. Robot characters 24. AI that isn’t in a robot body 25. Do robots have rights? 26. Can an existing machine develop intelligence? 27. Attitude toward robots 28. Snippet: ARTIFICIAL Week 5: Wrap up 29. Would you go to the world you’ve made? 30. A sci-fi book you’ve read with great worldbuilding
#SciFiSeptember day 30: LAST DAY!! What's a book or series you've loved with great worldbuilding? Or maybe several, we've got time and I've really been enjoying this month long conversation we've been having 💙
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A sci-fi book you've read with great worldbuilding
I want to mention one of my recent favorites here, because it doesn't get nearly enough attention.
Far Removed by CB Lansdell
It's fantastic. And there are no human characters! The knyads are a fascinating, semi-aquatic species
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28. Snippet: ARTIFICIAL
Literal undercities are such a fun trope. 😸
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SciFi September prompts by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social There are 30 prompts. The prompt for today (September 29) reads "Would you go to the world you've made?".
WOULD I VISIT THE AKRODAXIS?
I think I would visit the Akrodaxis, especially if I could be an årdrakin when I did it. Despite the grim circumstances surrounding our introduction to this galaxy, I think overall it's an exciting, interesting place that has a lot going for it.
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ALCEFS: Star Trek was a major inspiration for this setting. And Wikipedia's List of Emerging Technologies was very helpful. Also, shoutout to Pyotr Kropotkin for his work on anarcho-communism. And of course, shoutout to @jennelikejennay.bsky.social for hosting #SciFiSeptember! (3/3)
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29. I'd visit for sure, but like...a Mannshe core world or something, around museums, monumental areas, historical areas, where they're likely to be grand, stately, stoic, and safe, but with all the finest amenities and conveniences. The Veshavan Majesty is simply too damn loud.
#SciFiSeptember A worldbuilding prompt event hosted by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social Week 1: Space 1. What's the scale of your story-one planet, one star, a galaxy? 2. Transportation method 3. An important spaceship 4. Faster-than-light travel 5. How does space travel feel? 6. Spacewalks 7. Snippet: STAR Week 2: Aliens 8. Are there sapient aliens? 9. Different kinds of aliens 10. How different are they from humans? 11. Interspecies communication 12. Alien animals and plants 13. Whole alien ecosystems 14. Snippet: STRANGE Week 3: Tech 15. Long-distance communication 16. Kinds of media 17. Body alterations and cyborg implants 18. Janky gadgets 19. Tech with a harmful cost 20. Forbidden tech 21. Snippet: DEVICE Week 4: Robots 22. Is there real artificial intelligence? 23. Robot characters 24. AI that isn't in a robot body 25. Do robots have rights? 26. Can an existing machine develop intelligence? 27. Attitude toward robots 28. Snippet: ARTIFICIAL Week 5: Wrap up 29. Would you go to the world you've made? 30. A sci-fi book you've read with great worldbuilding
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29. Would you go to the world you've made?
Depends on where. In Sed's hometown, Celdarian Prime Under, my weak ass wouldn’t survive a day. 💀 It's a big galaxy though, there's a place for everyone, even if you have to carve it out for yourself.
#SciFiSeptember 29: Yeah, I'd absolutely love to! The ALCEFS is my own vision of a near-utopian society, so of course it's a place I'd want to live. I'm a little tired of sci-fi dystopias at the moment; the world is already bleak enough, and I think what we all need now is to see a path forward.
If you asked me when I first started this project in 2004, I would have refused.
Too much fraud and fear tied up in the government. And way too many creatures designed to spread death and disease.
Now, though?
Seems like a holiday destination!
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Depends on the world!
Bisection: I would find Kinaru nice for a tour, but I wouldn't stay. Shatak would be a good place to live.
Imperial Mars: Mars and Earth are both terrible, but I'd happily go to Venus.
Invasive: I definitely don't belong there and would get eaten by a tree.
Sci-fi September: a worldbuilding prompt event hosted by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social Week 1: Space 1. What’s the scale of your story— one planet, one star, a galaxy? 2. Transportation method 3. An important spaceship 4. Faster-than-light travel 5. How does space travel feel? 6. Spacewalks 7. Snippet: STAR Week 2: Aliens 8. Are there sapient aliens? 9. Different kinds of aliens 10. How different are they from humans? 11. Interspecies communication 12. Alien animals and plants 13. Whole alien ecosystems 14. Snippet: STRANGE Week 3: Tech 15. Long-distance communication 16. Kinds of media 17. Body alterations and cyborg implants 18. Janky gadgets 19. Tech with a harmful cost 20. Forbidden tech 21. Snippet: DEVICE Week 4: Robots 22. Is there real artificial intelligence? 23. Robot characters 24. AI that isn’t in a robot body 25. Do robots have rights? 26. Can an existing machine develop intelligence? 27. Attitude toward robots 28. Snippet: ARTIFICIAL Week 5: Wrap up 29. Would you go to the world you’ve made? 30. A sci-fi book you’ve read with great worldbuilding
#SciFiSeptember day 29: would you go to the world you've made?
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I would absolutely go to my world. For WIP 3, if I can live in the Empire it would be a dream come true. Despite technically being a dictatorship, it’s a high-tech utopia.
#SciFiSeptember day 29 would you go.into the world.youve made?
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Well, Im a bit of a homebody, so it would be a tough sell. As a vacation? Maybe. Most places in the 5 Galaxies Commonwealth seem harmless enough. It would definitely be an experience.
#SciFiSeptember 29
Would you go to the world you've made?
The future Earth as seen in Wraith and the Revolution: No.
Megatropolis might be fun to visit, but I wouldn't want to stay (too many people)
Botanaar: Definitely yes. I like trees.
#SciFiSeptember 28: Skylar walks to the classroom where they volunteer as a teacher, taking them through the gardens. This is what immediately precedes my snippet from day 14. Artificial Sun-like lighting, plus a bonus unrelated mention of AI.
#SciFiSeptember day 28: a writing snippet with ARTIFICIAL
Had to go into the second book. The first only had 4 Artificial tags, and 2 of them weren't for robots (and the last one was the same sentence twice, which was meh)
A graphic showing a blurred blue, pink, and purple background. In the top left and bottom right corners are crystal sun motifs. The top right corner reads "All Our Sins", while the bottom left corner says "akairondragon.ca". The text in the middle reads "SNIPPET: ARTIFICIAL "Artificial" only appears twice in The First Sin, once in reference to waterways and once in reference to light. In Emergence, the word appears three times, all in reference to fabricated environmental conditions aboard a starbase. It doesn't appear at all in Sin Beyond Redemption (so far)."
SciFi September prompts by @jennelikejennay.bsky.social There are 30 prompts. The prompt for today (September 28) reads "Snippet: ARTIFICIAL".
SNIPPET: ARTIFICIAL
"Artificial" only appears twice in The First Sin, once in reference to waterways and once in reference to light.
In Emergence, the word appears three times, all in reference to fabricated environmental conditions aboard a starbase.
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