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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was hoping for,
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This review is from: World-Building (Paperback)
Despite the book's prestigious author, the title is a bit misleading. Most of the book focuses on "world-building" is not a 'world' per se, but is is meant in the larger sense: planetary/star-system building. I was hoping for more. One of my fiction projects includes "world-building" societies: things like races, religions, language, culture, costume, architecture, flora, government, et al., and the book covers none of that. Although the book itself it good for what it covers, I wish it had a different title that more accurately reflected its content.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good even for non-aspiring SF writers,
By A Customer
This review is from: World-Building (Paperback)
This is a book about the science for, rather than the science of, science fiction. This should perhaps be viewed as supplemental to material on the actual construction of science fiction stories. The focus in particular is on geology, astronomy and planetary dynamics so that the reader will know what details can be ascribed to a planet and remain believable. You will get both qualitative overviews of various topics with more quantitative insertions which one can use to facilitate back-of-the envelope calculations for constructing worlds. These insertions may be skipped over without interfering with the flow of the book and is probably better that you do so even if one has a strong mathematical background (one can always go back later with a calculator to do some constructions). Due to my background in physics, I found myself familiar with most of the material presented in the first two-thirds of the book. However, I still enjoyed it as it was presented in a concise, logical manner. A variety of topics are covered, including: * The relationship between large moons and rotational stability of a planet I did however find the last 10% of the book to have escaped my interest. The author began to divulge into more bizarre scenarios which were hard to relate to.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concise, useful starting point.,
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This review is from: World-Building (Paperback)
The biggest advantage to his book is that it concisely draws together the general facts about stars, planets, and atmospheres that one needs to design the physicality of worlds for hard-science fiction. Though not all encompassing or exhaustive of the subject, there's enough data to enable one to make choices for a world and then research those choices to the depth necessary to meet one's needs without having to become an expert in astrophysics and/or biochemistry.
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