World Building Month

[james_davis_nicoll]

In reaction to what he sees as unimaginative SFnal settings, Pompe makes a declaration:

I think SFRPGs need to rediscover that sense of wonder, not of starship battles and alien empires but of the sunset over an alien world. Maybe some SF fiction would do well to do the same.

Anyway, I hereby declare March 2008 World Building Month on this LJ, in order to put the worlds and the science of them back in SF, games and fiction. I encourage anyone interested in the same things to work for the same goal.


As you can see, he already has put together some relevent articles.

Instead of saying "Maybe some SF fiction would do well to do the same," I'd say that if more did, I'd be a very happy reviewer. There never were a lot of rigorously worked out alien worlds (Mike Resnick has made a career using just the opposite) but more would be better.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Make sure some of them are stoic warrior races. That's really important.

[tsm-in-toronto.livejournal.com]

Always with the stoic warrior races ... yimminy! For a change could we have just one woyic storrier race, just once?

I mean, I'd really like to see a story with storriers.

Man, that would just be the storriest.

[tsm-in-toronto.livejournal.com]

Sorry. That was a really wimpy thing to write.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I want to see the meadow world populated by Belgian ant-people.

[(Anonymous)]

This would be a scathing satire on the EU, right? Complete with waffle-subsidies and mecha-muslims?

James in Bermuda

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about a very dull, orderly world whose main cause of friction was a slight difference in pheromone reaction. Also, the queens secrete chocolate.

[florbigoo.livejournal.com]

And beer.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like Canada, until that last part. As loyal as I am, I cannot say that my sovereign lady would not be improved by a chocolate-secretion organ.

James

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Canadians, Mr. Rico. Zillions of 'em!