I know I’ve been brainstorming it out for literal years, with many contradictory ideas, but it’s been a rough few years, and so help me future Georgia, Decca, and friends (from my stories) have been pleasant (imaginary) companions. Georgia, last we saw of her, was … Continue readingDeseret, Reborn in Water?
If you’re even passingly familiar with apocalyptic conspiracy theories, you’ve probably heard of “pole shift”, the idea that the Earth’s rotational axis will soon flip or suddenly change and cause some sort of catastrophe. This, of course, is not happening in real life…but there is … Continue readingWorldbuilding Pole Shift…only with Real Science
I’ve been giving some thought, once again, to Thalassa, my oceanic planet with a thick oxygen atmosphere orbiting Proxima Centauri, which I’ve featured in some stories…but it’s some stories I might want to revise, because the more I brainstorm the biosphere, the more alien and … Continue readingLeviathans of the Airy Deep?
I haven’t written much about it on here, but lately I’ve been brainstorming about Earth climatology…and in true “me” fashion, this eventually has me wandering back to thinking about how one of my alien planets would behave. In particular, my Earth-like (but very much not … Continue readingOf Georeactors, Katabatics, Twin Suns, and Climatology
I’ve touched on before about greater Los Angeles in my science-fictional alternate timeline, and more I brainstorm it, the more fantastical it gets. Mine is a world where buildings rise a mile high, where automobile and aircraft alike zip at terrific speeds across the landscape…but … Continue readingContour Futurism: Los Angeles as a Canal City?
I’ve been giving some thought as to how an alien intelligence could be really alien from what we’re used to with humans on Earth; hardly an original idea, to the point I almost subvert it by making my “Thalassans”, an avian intelligence native to Proxima … Continue readingMaking my Aliens more Three-Dimensional…
“CHON?”, you might ask; “What’s that?”. It’s an affectionate acronym for the four most common vital chemical elements in the biochemistry of life as we know it. To wit, carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), and nitrogen (N). The human body is 95..6% CHON by … Continue readingThe Tyranny of CHON
What would be “next level” beyond “Wings of Fire”, my story of an alternate-historical lunar landing where an Apollo-13-style explosion proves deadly, and occurs after the lander is already on the surface? This was, as in our timeline, the early space age, so backups, redundancy, … Continue readingGhost Ships of Titan
Dry, thin air is forgiving; as many a mountaineer could tell you, temperatures that would fry or freeze with humidity and heaviness just don’t bother you at altitude. The reason? There’s just not as much substance to conduct and convect heat away from the body, … Continue readingThe Ultimate “Banana Belt”?
So far in my worldbuilding of our stellar neighborhood I’ve avoided Earth twins or Earth analogues for the most part…but zooming out, it’s just a bit too tempting to look at a solar analogue star (a star that’s very similar to our own sun, a … Continue readingLambda Aurigae: Earth’s Evil Twin