Sci-Fi Writing and World Building Forum

Post thread
Sci-Fi writers, this forum is for you. Free ideas and advice for your stories from sci-fi fans and science professionals. Find out how to bring in real science for your story.
So I have this idea .... Synthetic mas
Replies
23
Views
2K
Rare mineral to power dark energizers in a sci-fi story
Replies
19
Views
2K
A question about a uranium enricher plot device in a game
Replies
2
Views
1K
Food for thought: What type of alien have you NOT seen ....
Replies
19
Views
2K
What would an antimatter engine be like?
Replies
10
Views
2K
Ability to produce an energetic plasma
Replies
27
Views
3K
Writing: Input Wanted Exploring Morphing Powers in Kepler Bb: Wilderness Survival Grade
Replies
2
Views
969
Writing: Input Wanted Does a Nuclear Blast Create a Vacuum Effect Toward the Epicenter?
Replies
21
Views
2K
Planetary tidal locking of Close Binary Red Dwarf Stars
Replies
12
Views
3K
Help with the physics of a fictional geocentric solar-system
Replies
7
Views
2K
I need to prove a superhero.
Replies
8
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted An Alternate to the Siberian Traps
Replies
6
Views
2K
A Series of Exoplanets in Our Solar System
Replies
10
Views
2K
Spintropics and Magnetic Acceleration
Replies
2
Views
2K
Writing a Script - Chaos Theory
Replies
4
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted Eleven Inner Planets--What Will Earth's Ice Ages Be Like?
Replies
4
Views
2K
How Does Great Lakes Earth's Geography Differ from Our Own?
Replies
2
Views
2K
How Can I Control Buckyballs Using Electrostatics in My Novel?
Replies
22
Views
3K
Time Travel Theory: Exploring Particle Entanglement
Replies
2
Views
2K
Two of my nonsense short stories
Replies
3
Views
2K
Writing a Novel....Have a quandry/qustion
Replies
4
Views
2K
Building a Dyson Sphere around a Class-B Star
Replies
31
Views
4K
Is there a possibility that time loops exist?
Replies
9
Views
5K
Still confused about solar flares..
Replies
5
Views
2K
How can a singularity be used to prevent the formation of the Moon?
Replies
8
Views
1K
Exploring the Mysteries of Space Warps
Replies
2
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted A small SciFi comic loosely based on the sixth day movie
Replies
4
Views
2K
Earthquake forming a volcano
Replies
2
Views
1K
Inertial Privilege: Reframing Physics for Accelerated Frames
Replies
10
Views
2K
Help with a new term for gender specific telepathy please
2
Replies
44
Views
5K
Earth rotation speed if it was tidal locked to the Sun
Replies
8
Views
2K
Exploring Different Worlds in Storytelling: Political Systems and Economies
Replies
5
Views
2K
Gravity Defying Ships Cause Time Dilation and Paradoxes?
Replies
8
Views
2K
Can advanced species defend against kugelblitzes?
Replies
2
Views
1K
Power Scaling for My Fictional Universe
Replies
4
Views
2K
Got an astrophysics/ astrodynamics question....
Replies
6
Views
1K
I need a 3D map of the universe out to 400 ly....suggestions?
Replies
4
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted The role of cosmology on a world....
Replies
5
Views
2K
Amateur author seeking help on attacking ozone layer
Replies
2
Views
2K
Science question for story I'm writing
Replies
18
Views
2K
Can high barometric pressure supplement low gravity?
Replies
8
Views
2K
Divining the God Globe: Uniting to Spread the Words of a Super Jupiter
Replies
4
Views
1K
Writing: Input Wanted A Magic Compass & Real Magnetism
Replies
3
Views
1K
Writing: Input Wanted Travel to an Alien Sky: Far in Milky Way?
Replies
23
Views
3K
Writing: Input Wanted Extraorbital Atmospheric Re-Entry: Terminal Velocity?
Replies
11
Views
2K
Epidemic on an Asteroid Colony: Medical Crime Story
Replies
19
Views
2K
How can you negate impact force?
Replies
17
Views
3K
Writing: Input Wanted Can extreme pain cause paralysis?
Replies
7
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted Is it useful to have 2 stomachs?
Replies
15
Views
6K
What "woo" would you build into a story?
Replies
4
Views
2K
What's a good gravity substitute?
Replies
13
Views
2K
What do you expect from a sci fi novel?
Replies
23
Views
4K
How far can we go with space drives and the third law?
Replies
22
Views
3K
Find Total Force of Explosion in Asteroid Mine Shaft
Replies
3
Views
2K
Backstory Help: Asteroid Collision in California
Replies
11
Views
2K
Sporadic Thoughts & Ideas: Use or Not, You Decide
Replies
11
Views
1K
Advice on Quantum Physics for Novel Writing
Replies
2
Views
2K
Enhancing Human Abilities: Challenges and Possibilities
Replies
2
Views
1K
Best way to sneak up on Earth?
Replies
18
Views
2K
Generation ships v. hibernation ships?
Replies
30
Views
4K
Writing: Input Wanted How to Get Heart Specific EKG for My Kepler Bb Humanoids
Replies
2
Views
2K
Essential Castaway Equipment for Endor: Star Wars Universe
Replies
6
Views
1K
How do we equip our pioneers on new worlds?
Replies
11
Views
1K
Gravity vs Light: What's the Turning Tide of Battle?
Replies
3
Views
2K
Why did the FTL Drive fail and strand the aliens?
Replies
5
Views
2K
Physically plausible explanation for missile based space combat?
3
Replies
102
Views
12K
Designing a world based of the four Greek elements
Replies
3
Views
1K
Time loops, black hole and time dilation.
Replies
2
Views
2K
Strangest hypothetical objects in space?
Replies
27
Views
3K
Methods of leaving Earth in the distant future
Replies
12
Views
2K
Is this description of a black hole accurate?
Replies
9
Views
2K
What happens if you sail through gravity waves?
Replies
10
Views
2K
Mars' Lagrange Points conundrum
Replies
6
Views
2K
Objections to Previous Time Traveler's Conventions Needed
Replies
9
Views
2K
Drawing dark energy from space as a power source
Replies
7
Views
3K
Help wih relativity formula?
Replies
2
Views
1K
Writing: Input Wanted Spacecraft One Alpha 10: Energy, Materials & Protection
Replies
2
Views
1K
Space Traffic Control: intercepting signals in space
Replies
33
Views
3K
Working on the rough draft of a novel, mind if I ask some....
Replies
11
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted The Immortal Gene: Uncovering Biological Immortality
Replies
5
Views
1K
Writing: Input Wanted The temperature at which flesh burns
Replies
14
Views
10K
Writing: Input Wanted What would it take to crawl out of a black hole?
Replies
17
Views
2K
What would you see traveling faster than light?
Replies
10
Views
2K
Time dilation/difference between 2 planets
Replies
12
Views
7K
Would an Earth with two moons the size of Luna work?
Replies
6
Views
2K
The visuals of a kinetic bombardment
Replies
4
Views
2K
The Internal Consistency of Collapsing Realities
Replies
2
Views
1K
Doing a project, need some insight to some physics things
2
Replies
35
Views
3K
What would a 500-year-old abandoned city on the coast look like?
Replies
5
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted Kepler Db & D#: Binary Planets & Moons
Replies
2
Views
1K
Writing: Input Wanted Feasibility check for double planet system
Replies
7
Views
2K
Writing: Input Wanted Can Humans Survive on a Generation Ship with Alien Protocols and Dinosaur Mates?
Replies
4
Views
2K
Accuracy of a stellar collision event
Replies
9
Views
2K
How long would it take to inhabit the universe?
Replies
4
Views
2K
Exploring the Alcubierre Drive: Tachyons & Exotic Matter
Replies
6
Views
2K
What background would a time machine inventor need?
Replies
8
Views
2K
Unconventional Strategies for Defeating a Robotic Army in Urban Warfare
4
Replies
136
Views
13K
A rational design for a personnel airlock
Replies
3
Views
1K
What are good time travel theories to use for Science Fiction?
Replies
10
Views
4K
The Aesthetics of impossible or unreal physical phenomena
Replies
2
Views
1K

Sci-Fi World Building

Welcome to the Sci-Fi World Building forum!

Sci-Fi writers, this forum is for you! Use this forum to discuss science fiction writing topics.

Writers, get ideas and advice for your stories from sci-fi fans and science professionals.

Find out how to bring in real science to your story for realism and credibility.

Hot Threads

Recent Insights

Back
Top