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7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
7 Deadly Sins of Worldbuilding
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How do they eat? What do they eat? Who takes away the garbage? Who deals
with their bodily wastes? How do they get around? What do the majority of
people do to survive? You're not just constructing a society, you're creating
an economy. People don't oppress each other for fun usually, systems of
hierarchy and oppression have an economic component to them. Maybe you
need a lot of peasants to grow labor-intensive crops, or maybe you need lots
of cannon fodder in your space war. Maybe your only source of protein is a
weird fungus that needs to be tended by specially trained people. Maybe
everybody's eating algae. In any case, there's nothing worse than a fictional
world where there are elaborate social structures, which seem completely
separated from the realities of food, shelter and clothing.
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20 Great Infodumps
From Science Fiction Novels
A truly great infodump is a
work of art. The best science
fiction authors can brief you
on
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Korea. Or
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Germany,
for nearly
five decades.
Why is
WashingtonDC
the capital
of the
United
States
instead of
Philadelphia?
Why did the
Portuguese
have their
own colony
in India
until 1961?
History is
weird. And
things that
seem
inevitable in
retrospect
usually
seemed
anything but
at the time.
So a totally
logical
history will
never pass
the "smell"
test. And
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