Hi, Todd. Thank you for taking the time to welcome me so graciously and generously, especially with so much else on your plate!
I really love fictional reference material and am a big fan of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, so an Encyclopedia Galactica sounds like a wonderful thing to contribute to indeed.
I've found that getting lost is a good way to find things, funnily enough. I certainly don't mind a few, uh... random ambles.
I'm interested in doing some stuff with aliens and their technological and societal developments (in an artificially simulated universe if necessary, but preferably in the main one). I was curious if there are particular rules or artistic constraints I need to abide by or be aware of beyond the laws of physics and agreed-upon rarity of aliens in order to maintain consistency with the observations which give rise to the Fermi paradox.
This seems like a great list already. I intend to read as much of it as I can!
Thank you again, Todd - I really appreciate it.
PS.) Here's a sample of something I've been working on that may fit in with Orion's Arm, about shelled organisms that have developed into a race of very physically-rooted vec-like beings with what I hope is a fairly unique world-view: It's just a sketch right now, but I'm hopping to turn it into something closer to a short narrative or possibly a more thoroughly detailed entry in the EG.
I really love fictional reference material and am a big fan of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, so an Encyclopedia Galactica sounds like a wonderful thing to contribute to indeed.
I've found that getting lost is a good way to find things, funnily enough. I certainly don't mind a few, uh... random ambles.
I'm interested in doing some stuff with aliens and their technological and societal developments (in an artificially simulated universe if necessary, but preferably in the main one). I was curious if there are particular rules or artistic constraints I need to abide by or be aware of beyond the laws of physics and agreed-upon rarity of aliens in order to maintain consistency with the observations which give rise to the Fermi paradox.
This seems like a great list already. I intend to read as much of it as I can!
Thank you again, Todd - I really appreciate it.
PS.) Here's a sample of something I've been working on that may fit in with Orion's Arm, about shelled organisms that have developed into a race of very physically-rooted vec-like beings with what I hope is a fairly unique world-view: It's just a sketch right now, but I'm hopping to turn it into something closer to a short narrative or possibly a more thoroughly detailed entry in the EG.