In my quest to talk about world-building from A to Z I was expecting trouble when it came to X. Fortunately, before I was reduced to building my own planet beginning with X for the Viridian System series, I found
X is for Xanth
W is for Windemere #atozchallenge
Windemere: A place of magic, of dragons, of evil beasts that live under the earth and rise up to snare the unwary, of desolate wastelands, and green fields and forests. A good place for my W post in my world-building
V is for the Viridian System
Well, today V hits Viridium, the spur for my world-building theme for this year’s A to Z. I have a detailed description here which is an edited version of that on the Viridian system website. Then I’ve answered my own question
U is for Ulric
Ulric is a planet within the Imperium, although it is not a planet, but a large moon, orbiting the planet Daedalus, which orbits the star Barnard at 1AU, the same distance as the Earth from the Sun. Barnard, as it
Turgonia in Conspiracy (Emperor’s Edge 4) by Lindsay Buroker
T is for Turgonia, the main city in Lindsay Buroker’s fabulous Emperor’s Edge series. Since it’s Saturday, it’s book review day, but since it’s the A to Z, I have to focus on world-building. My review is of Conspiracy, book
#FridayFlash Fiction | Sunset Strip – Elder Council
S is for Sunset Strip, the binary planet of the Viridian System whose major industry is leisure and tourism. Whenever I write flash fiction for any worlds in the Viridian System at present I’m always thinking of what I’m writing
R is for Rufus and #Fi50 for April
R is for Rufus, a star system on the Beta side of the Alpha Quadrant. I’m world-building in my own system today. There are two inhabited planets: Rufus 5 is called Pavane, and Rufus 6 is so far unnamed. The Rufus
Q is for Quadrants – mainly Alpha and Delta
My theme this year is ‘world-building’ and for Q I’m going as far as the whole galaxy! In my Viridian System series, I decided to define the structure of my Milky Way galaxy, just in case my characters decided to locate
P is for Pern
In my world-building A to Z we’ve reached P, for which I’ve selected Pern, the world created by Anne McCaffrey for her Dragonriders series. In a nutshell, the stories are adventures, often featuring strong, powerless young women (and men) with special talents
O is for Overland
Overland is the land above the Underland in Suzanne Collins’ Gregor the Overlander. In my month’s tour of world-building, I squeezed in Overland, although from memory, it is really rather like a normal Earth world, and it is Underland that
Nevermore in Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr
N is for Nevermore, the planet central to Judith Tarr’s splendid book Forgotten Suns. Saturday is book review day, even during the April A to Z, but I’ll be slanting it towards my theme of world-building, and in addition, I
L is for Lothlorien
Lothlorien, the home in Middle Earth for the High Elves, is one of the places that I visualise very strongly, and also where the film version best matches my vision. But I’ve really picked Lothlorien for my world-building trek through
K is for K’Barth and M T McGuire
My world-building letter K is for K’Barth, which is only part of M T McGuire’s wondrous parallel world, it’s true, but the heroes are K’Barthan and I’m going to ignore the Grongols, Blurpons and myriad other races which are part
J is for Jupiter
My A to Z Challenge theme this year is ‘world building’, and today we come closer to home. Jupiter is in the news, not only its amazing size, atmosphere, and what we’re learning about its weather systems, but also because
I for Imperium
This year’s A to Z Challenge theme is ‘world-building’, in honour of my new sci-fi books – the Viridian System Series. Definition from The Perihelix, Chapter 5 Imperium, The: n. Benevolent system of world alliances, centred on the Terzan E