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-grin- I agree. And it /is/ fun. Is your research for a novel or just because?
I didn’t really try to work out the astronomical logic, so I spent time looking at the wonderful designs you have created! Especially Stage 1. It looks like something from the Bauhaus movement! If the story doesn’t work out you can always sell it as an art print!
HAH! Thank you…and I’m not surprised. Moreover I’ll bet that your tides are eerily accurate! Methinks you and I have a similar kind of brain.
You’re right though, most readers will either not know or will just skim over those kinds of background/world building points. But…I bet your brain goes ‘Ut oh’ when you read something that doesn’t ring true?
Just as a side issue, how much research did you do for Sunwielder? The military aspects of that story left me utterly gobsmacked.
It’s an odd thing, but I believe readers can ‘feel’ when the author is fudging something.
What I know about battle strategy etc could fit in a thimble, yet I /knew/ that you weren’t fudging the ‘hard bits’ in Sunwielder.
Maybe it’s the air of ease with which we write when we feel confident of the subject matter?
I think you’re right. Readers know.
My head hurts so much I’m seeing stars!
….Sorry, I’ll show myself out.
I gobbled up the whole trilogy–Nom nom nom!
The lesson to sci-fi writers seems to be to locate your stories on Earth. Are you going to investigate the other effects on the planet eg electro-magnetic influence, tidal effects, etc.
Now if someone came up with an app where you coould feed data in and get the solar effects out, they’d be very popular.
I spend well over 10 years playing with the world of Vokhtah and it’s still my baby. Would I create a world like that again? No. My more recent stories are set on terra firma.
God, I would give my left arm to have a model that could simulate various astronomical situations!
If there are any astronomers out there, please take note. This could be a goldmine!
A. C. Flory figures out the way a star system works. With precision and diagrams.
I am blown away. Amazing work, Andrea.
Imagine them. Isn’t that what NASA does?
lmao – they have better artists than me!
Amazing Andrea. Don’t want to follow the logic, but it’s amazing to know it’s there.
Not sure the goal is 100% accuracy. Wouldn’t be in the fiction section in the bookshops, if that were the case.
Mmm…I agree that there’s a lot in sci-fi that is fiction, but by definition, the science part of it should at least be possible. At least that’s how I view sci-if.
hehe well, good luck then. It would be beyond me.
Ha. I wouldn’t (and don’t) bother with facts too much. You may have noticed.
Um, you’re wrong. Readers relate to your boyhood poems precisely because they ‘ring true’ [for those of us with European backgrounds].
Ok, I stand corrected. I was actually thinking of works like the Cielonaut and similar pieces that I’ve been plugging away with, and that I’ve set on the moon or in among the stars somewhere. I don’t bother too much with facts in those settings, but try to focus on feelings more. So, the emotion should ring true, but the fact of being out there somewhere is secondary, at best.
*white noise*!! I’m with David!!
I can’t imagine what your brain is like but mine hurts now.