Building Mass Effect: How Bioware Imagines the Future
Whatever the Reapers are working toward, it must be big!
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Building Baubles: How Revenger Fails at Technology
Revenger's setting is both intriguing and highly confused.
Episode 306: Transportation in Spec Fic
Before your hero can clock in for a space 9 to 5, they first have to commute to work.
Five Tips for Creating an Engaging Space Battle
Space battles are an important aspect of science fiction, especially space opera, and we want them to be engaging.
Episode 156: Space Opera vs Science
Space opera has always had a tenuous relationship with science, from sound in space to the main deflector dish.
Five Plausible Scenarios for Planetary Evacuation
How your protagonist's plans to depart from the planet can make a little more sense.
Episode 95: Good Elements From Terrible Stories
Do even the worst train wrecks have something good to take from them?
Episode 92: Fantasy in Space
Going to another planet and finding gnomes there
Episode 79: Scifi Roleplaying Systems
Do you like dice?
Five More Illogical Design Choices in Spaceships
The workings of these spacecraft models don't add up on a second watch.
Five Illogical Design Choices in Spaceships
It took billions to build this thing, but why would we make sure it works first?
Five Obstacles to a Realistic Interstellar Empire
Space might be mostly empty, but these realities would still get in the way.
Five Uses of Real Science in The Expanse
How this massive, multiplanetary series puts the "sci" in sci-fi.
Designing Aliens From an Alternate Earth
How to spice up the workings of your extra-terrestrials.
Eight Natural Phenomena to Use in Your Stories
Ball lightning is something entirely different.
Designing Your Spaceship
How to start crafting your star craft.
Changing the Way Your World Moves
How planetary science can help your fictional world stand out.
Giving Your World Fantastic Skies
How a brilliant celestial visual will change the world it's seen from.
Episode 28: Space Captains
Oren, Chris, and Mike talk about captains in futuristic space settings.
Obeying the Celestial Speed Limit
What this universal constant means for your interstellar stories.
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