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The Short Story Thread: Post Yours Here
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Boost Your Sci-Fi Writing with Atomic Rockets, Forensics Demystified & More!"
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Grammatically speaking, which would you consider more correct?
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Super-critical atmospheres that we could tolerate?
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Boron on extrasolar rocky planets?
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When writing a third-person limited narrative for an amnesiac, what is...
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A 4D HyperEarth: 1000x More Space for Real Estate
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Tidally-locked planets flipping around their axes
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The Mystery of Hyperdimensional Discus: Why a 4D Discus Won't Fly
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Motorized Watercraft on a Hyperdimensional Planet
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The interior design of the central trunk of a ring spaceship
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Wall thickness of ring habitats for radiation shielding
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Can anyone provide suggestions for a book on prose-writing?
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