Worldbuilding: Unanchored Detail

CC BY-SA 2.0 by Alan Hawkes, part of the Geograph project and hosted on Wikimedia Commons Think of a series of stories you love. Can you think of a moment when a seed of detail, planted in an early book or episode and left behind, suddenly sprouts and blooms several...

Worldbuilding: Count the Days

Perpetual calendar, German, possibly 16th century; public domain image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art How do beings in our setting count time? Planets orbit stars, spinning around those glowing orbs for billions of years. Some planets leave their parent...