Category: Science of Stories

Is Colonization of Moon or Mars the Same Paradigm as Colonizing New Lands in the Past?

So can we col­o­nize space like homo sapi­ens mov­ing out of Africa in the stone age, or like the Pil­grims col­o­nized Mass­a­chu­setts in the 1600s? How about cross­ing the land bridge to the Amer­i­c­as dur­ing the ice ages? The suc­cess of those efforts built upon two things: The stuff they brought with them, and The […]

Worldbuilding 1: Articles by Torn MacAlester

World Build­ing for Sci­ence Fic­tion­Im­age by Snap­wire on pex­els I want­ed to share some insight into the world build­ing process that I am using in my sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries. First off, most would call my sci­ence fic­tion as ‘Hard’ sci­ence fic­tion because of my use of sci­en­tif­ic rig­or when devel­op­ing my sto­ries. For myself, it’s […]

Civilization and Power

It’s All About Pow­er­Part 3 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence fic­tion: This is the def­i­n­i­tion of the Kar­da­shev Scale.  Since it is a mea­sure of the pow­er gen­er­at­ed by a civ­i­liza­tion, it is titled: All about Pow­er. In case you’ve missed the pre­vi­ous posts in the thread, Part 1 begins here. The pre­vi­ous post in this […]

An Exercise in World Building

World Build­ing for Sci­ence Fic­tion­Im­age by Snap­wire on pex­els I want­ed to share some insight into the world build­ing process that I am using in my sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries. First off, most would call my sci­ence fic­tion as ‘Hard’ sci­ence fic­tion because of my use of sci­en­tif­ic rig­or when devel­op­ing my sto­ries. For myself, it’s […]

A Paradox: A Description of the Fermi Paradox by Torn MacAlester

It Starts With A Para­dox­Part 2 of World Build­ing for Sci­ence Fic­tion Part 2—It Starts With A Para­dox   by Torn MacAlester     Pho­to by Rakice­vic Nenad from Pex­els The Fer­mi Para­dox The Fer­mi para­dox tries to answer: Where are they (the aliens)? It looks at how fast trav­el is across the galaxy.  It says […]

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