Author of Hopeful Speculative Fiction
This week, I examine practical ways of using fictoscience, which is a method of incorporating made up words in a way that makes sense and doesn’t devolve into technobabble. I provide two scenes as well as lists of suffixes that I used to create the various words in the new vocabulary of the world of … Read More “Practicum: Fictoscience in Fantasy” »
Don’t worry, there’s nothing here that will offend animal lovers! The unethical animal practice Vivian and I take on in our post is bullfighting, and we come up with a scifi version that neatly avoids all of the downsides of bullfighting while keeping the unique elements of a battle of strength and wits between person … Read More “Practicum: Turning Unethical Animal Practices Ethical” »
To show how ads can work in the real world, or at least in the real fictional world of Stellima, I took the Tshutshi Cogni-Chip Manufacturing Company, the go-to place to get cognichips, and created an advertising campaign for them. It started out as practice for creating ads, but as I developed more ads alongside … Read More “Practicum: TCCMC Advertisements” »
Earlier on the Stellima blog, Vivian wrote a fascinating analysis of illnesses, what they are, how they feed and spread, and all sorts of fun stuff. After that post, they wanted a fantasy-focused illness that wasn’t a run of the mill disease or random magical disease number 3289, but something inspired by the magic system … Read More “Practicum: Fantasy Mana Diseases” »
