Fiction, World Building, and Art
By day, Nils Jeppe is a 37 years old service- and project manager in the IT industry. By night, his secret identity as a world builder, writer, and cartographer is revealed and his feverish imagination roams the multiverse in search of interesting worlds that he then documents on his blog, Enderra.com. You can follow Nils on Twitter.
The Titanic probably needs no introduction. It sank on April 15th, 1912 – one hundred years ago. Since its story is featured in so many stories, movies and so on, I thought it would be a good opportunity to post a list of plot ideas involving the Titanic.
Continue reading “Plot-a-Day: RMS Titanic” »
Tags: Ocean, Plot-a-Day, RPG; Role-playing game, Shipwreck, Sunken Ship, Titanic, Underwater
Another map of Human Space. This time, showing the relative density of human colonies. The darker the blue, the more colonies are there in a given volume of space. The darkest blue is basically the “most marginal world was settled and terraforming projects were launched on most of those”; the lightest shade of blue is the “human colonies are like needles in a haystack”. Everything else is, of course, something in between.
Tags: Cartography, Galaxy, Map, Milky Way, Orion Arm, Orion Spur, Science Fiction
Threw a quick map together. took me about two hours or so.
Tags: Cartography, Map, Mapping
Original:
Fake:
Considering I am still a noob at using The Gimp, I think it came out fairly well. No real reason for doing this, except as a practice edit.
Weee. Since I installed WordPress Stats in late June 2011, I got a total of 20,811 page views. Let’s take that as breaching the 20k milestone – Neat! – Thank you all for visiting!
It’s been quiet. Too quiet – but I’ve actually been working quite frantically on my science fiction setting. The fake advertisement was just something I felt like doing as an aside; mostly, I’ve been working out a detailed timeline and history from all the notes, brainstorming documents, and abortive world books I’ve written in the past. Just to give you an idea of the scope: We are talking about a 40-page document.
I thought I’d give you a bit of a sneak preview. There are some possible spoilers of future material… you have been warned.
Continue reading “Science Fiction Setting – Historic Map & Timeline Preview” »
Tags: Cartography, Galaxy, Map, Milky Way, Orion Arm, Orion Spur, Science Fiction
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The Zombie Gunslinger gave me a reason for goofing off…
Continue reading “Warning: Worldbuilding in Progress” »
Tags: Goofy Warning Signs, Worldbuilding
A new take on the Pan Colonial theme… an advertisement for trips to Oceania.
Took me about an hour (yes, I am a beginner) using The Gimp and Inkscape.
Tags: Gimp, Inkscape, Mock Advertisement, Ocean World, Pan Colonia, Science Fiction
A bunch of links, some courtesy of Mr. Zombie Gunslinger.
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