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How your protagonist's plans to depart from the planet can make a little more sense.
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How this massive, multiplanetary series puts the "sci" in sci-fi.
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How to spice up the workings of your extra-terrestrials.
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Crafting Plausible Maps
How to build your world's geography—and no square mountain ranges, please.
Designing Your Spaceship
How to start crafting your star craft.
Looking Under Your World’s Skin
How your world's underground shapes those who live above it.
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How the world beneath your world influences the landscape above it.
Changing the Way Your World Moves
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Spicing Up Your World’s Chemical Makeup
How your planet's elemental breakdown can change your story.
Giving Your World Fantastic Skies
How a brilliant celestial visual will change the world it's seen from.
Obeying the Celestial Speed Limit
What this universal constant means for your interstellar stories.
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These physical laws might get in the way of your interstellar spaceship fight.
Poisons: How to Use Them
Follow these tips for putting toxins in your story.
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