Product Description: This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to another.
Amazon.com Review: Another in Ben Bova's series on Science Fiction Writing, here geologist and SF scribe Stephen Gillett helps you construct star systems and planets from the atoms up. While it may take you a little more than the proverbial seven days (well, six with rest), when you're done, your knowledge of gravity, weather patterns, cosmic mass and stellar patterns--in this universe--will be greatly enhanced.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Think Astronomy!
Polishing up my own work, I recently considered purchasing this book. I checked it out at my local library, who had it in stock! (Helpful tip: check out possible purchases at the library, or request your ... Read More
Rating: - A great if read - and reality check.
I'm finding this a facinating book to read if only in terms of looking at how the Earth actually works and all the little details which seem to need to be just right in order to have a stable biosphere. ... Read More
Rating: - enjoyable read
Picked this book up as a reference for beginning my own SF book. Enjoyed it. Has some good info presented in a understandable manner.
Rating: - I will be able to use a lot of this information in my next book
As both a author and reader of fiction I enjoyed World Building even though I was not able to use any of it in my first book. I was looking for something to help me build heaven. However in my next book a ... Read More
Rating: - Useful Book
This book explores and details assorted aspects of world-building, some that I hadn't considered previously. Going through it's questionnaire helped me flesh out and enliven my fantasy planets. Well done!
- Think Astronomy!
- A great if read - and reality check.
- enjoyable read