Tag Archives: speculative biology

Well, Boom

Posted on February 26, 2021 by dan

Energy curdled back into mass as the ship translated out of light speed. After a pause for the crew to get used to experiencing time again, the ship’s instruments extended. From the crew’s perspective, they’d finished an extensive survey of … Continue reading →

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Interchange cover reveal

Posted on January 3, 2021 by dan

Guess what I found today “A year ago, Anne Houlihan uncovered a wormhole to Junction, a patchwork planet of competing alien biomes. Now, she and Daisuke are going back to investigate “The Howling Mountain,” the possible location of a wormhole … Continue reading →

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*Middle-Layer – a too-epic fantasy setting

Posted on February 23, 2020 by dan

This is not the time to be starting a new project. I’ve got stuff I gotta do. And yet here I am, playing with tectonic.js.   I give you *Middle-Layer, an earthlike world. I mean really earthlike. So earthlike that … Continue reading →

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Film Analysis: A Fellow Tetrapod Story

Posted on December 25, 2019 by dan

The sun rose, and the sky separated from the Pacific Ocean. The water stayed dark, but the air above lightened and developed clouds. They shone pink and hazy, stitched by the gleaming contrails of jets. Golden Hour, thought Mike Loew, … Continue reading →

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Facebook Live: Orbital Biome

Posted on July 30, 2019 by dan

Here’s something new. Watch me experiment with Facebook Live! Thrill as I make hand-wavy explanations of aliens and try to make my finger work. What do you think? Should I make more of these?

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Orbital Aliens

Posted on July 5, 2019 by dan

Here’s a bad photo of some aliens I made. I’m thinking a lot right now about aliens that live in orbit around an Earthlike planet. Their distant ancestors evolved in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized gas giant in the same … Continue reading →

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Specbio Questions?

Posted on April 12, 2019 by dan

Turns out I’m moderating a panel at Eastercon next week! It’s called “Creating Fantastic Biologies” “If you want to make realistic SF aliens, or realistic fantasy species, where do you start? Our panel discuss how to create fantastic biologies and … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to water 3: literature review

Posted on February 6, 2019 by dan

Start here with my quest for alternatives to water as the solvent for speculative biochemistry, and here’s a brief side-step to talk about water vapor. It might be clear at this point that my chemistry background isn’t quite solid (ha! … Continue reading →

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I’m on GanBreeder

Posted on January 28, 2019 by dan

You want to see more of this nonsense? Follow me on GanBreeder and keep an eye out for this stuff to show up in my books 😉

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Wheeler!

Posted on January 27, 2019 by dan

Look at this lovely glasslands wheeler Joschua Knüppe drew on an alien art stream! I’m glad he’s enjoying Junction.

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