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WORLD-BUILDING

Online world-building resources for writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

  • 3-D Star Maps - Hard SF writers need reasonably accurate 3-D starmaps in order to set the stage. This webpage is an attempt to assist those who lack the knowledge (or inclination) to do the work themselves.
  • Aliens and Alien Societies - a writers guide to creating extraerrestrial life-forms.
  • Alien Design Bibliography - a bibliography of books designed to help writers create alien creatures.
  • The Alternate View - (aimed at readers and writers of "hard" science fiction) columns by John G. Cramer that appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine.
  • The Astrobiology Web -an online guide to the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the Universe as well as all other aspects of space exploration.
  • Astrogators Handbook - an astronomy book with a difference. We don't show you where the stars are in the night sky of Earth. We show you where they are with respect to one another.Note: Free Download!
  • Atomic Rockets - information on designing and building scientifically accurate spacecraft. Great for science fiction writers.
  • Constructed Human Languages - is exactly what is says.
  • Constructing a SF Universe - is an interesting article by author Steven Swiniarski.
  • The Creator's Club - is an online community of writers and artists. Collaborative world building is the main focus here.
  • Discovery Online - website for the Discovery Channel.
  • Exoplanets - this catalog contains all the known exoplanets with masses and orbits established by Doppler measurements of stars within 200 parsecs.
  • Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia - is exactly what it says. Highly recommended.
  • Fantasy Village Generator - is a CGI-program that generates a whole fantasy village with a map, castles, craftmen, farms and houses and villagers. It generates a family for every (almost) house and farm, with random names, profession, equipment etc.The village created is inspired by the Deverry books written by Katherine Kerr.
  • The Fully Realized World - is an article by author Kate Elliott on creating a fantasy world.
  • Handbook of Space Astronomy & Astrophysics - an on-line book on space astronomy and astrophysics.
  • JMS on Writing - J. Michael Stracyznski, creator of Babylon 5, talks about writing.
  • The Language Construction Kit - is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages--for a fantasy or an alien world.
  • Magical World Builder's Guide - is a tool for creating a fantasy universe. Although there are several good guidebooks to creating a science fiction world, few deal with the quintessential elements of a fantasy realm. This guide ambitiously attempts to help fantasy authors discover their realms long before they sit down to the keyboard and fill in the details.
  • Medieval Demographics Made Easy - is an interesting article about fantasy world-builders.
  • The Mythopoet's Manual - is another useful guide for creating fantasy worlds.
  • The Nine Planets - is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
  • Nova Online - the online website for the Nova TV series.
  • On Creating an Earthlike Planet - page is intended to help role-players and authors of sci-fi and fantasy to create a world which resembles the Earth.
  • Orion's Arm - a collective hard SF world-building endeavour.
  • Patricia Wrede's World Builder Questions - is another useful guide for creating fantasy worlds.
  • The Planet Creation Kit - an online planet generator.
  • Planetary Fact Sheets - Mass, Volume, Equatorial radius, Polar radius, Mean density, Surface gravity etc.
  • Questions About Worldbuilding - author Holly Lisle faq's on world-building.
  • RPG Library - articles on magic, world-building, etc.
  • Seventh Sanctum (GENERATORS) - tools for writers, gamers, and artists; randomly assembling names, concepts, and more.
  • Starship Design Project - this is not a Star Trek or science fiction site. We are seriously trying to develop plausable concepts for starships we think could be built and flown in the mid 21st century.
  • Solar System Synthesis Applet - this applet simulates the formation of planets by accretion from the protoplanetary disc.
  • Tree of Life - is an Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
  • WebElements Periodic Table - home of the periodic table on the Web.
  • World Builders - is a resource for teachers who would like to teach their students how to build worlds.
  • World-Building - a writer's guide to constructing star systems and life-supporting planets.
  • World Building - is a web-page for RPG World Builders.
  • World-Building Home Page - an e-mail list intended to serve as a public forum for discussion of topics concerning the writing of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.
  • The World Future Society - is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization for people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future.
  • Worlds in the Net - is another web-page for RPG World Builders.
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