{"id":353,"date":"2010-08-21T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-08-21T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T20:58:51","slug":"new-world-building-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"New World-Building Resource!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Earth-Had-Moons-Thought-Provoking\/dp\/0312598920\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1282422961&#038;sr=8-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"What If the Earth Had Two Moons?\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Qc2hKZRlL._SL160_AA160_.jpg\" title=\"What If the Earth Had Two Moons?\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just began reading a book that appears to have much to offer in the way of world-building ideas: <em>What If the Earth Had Two Moons? And Nine Other Thought-provoking Speculations on the Solar System<\/em> by Neil F. Comins. I&#8217;ve just finished the first chapter and even there I&#8217;ve already found the following &#8220;thought-provoking&#8221; ideas:<\/p\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Perhaps the first sentient creatures on Dimaan [Comins&#8217; name for the Earth with two moons] will evolve from nocturnal hunters rather than arboreal creatures, as occurred on Earth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8230;challenges caused by high tide cycles would lead to differences in the way coastal civilizations developed on Dimaan from the way they have on Earth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And this is just the first chapter! Granted, there are a number of interesting web sites in which to get similar information (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-builders.org\/\">World Builders<\/a>), but Comins&#8217; book provides an easily-digestible way to get the creativity flowing. He also includes new names for the alternate Earths and their moons (or lack thereof) like Dimaan (&#8220;Earth&#8221;), Kuu (&#8220;Moon&#8221;), and Lluna (the 2nd captured moon in the first chapter). He also includes brief narratives introducing each new chapter&#8217;s concepts, like a Dimaanian Galileo Galilei getting arrested by the Dimaanian Inquisition in the first chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Although not a conlanging resource <em>per se<\/em>, this book has the potential to serve as a jumping off point for those who want to lend the environment in which their conlangs are spoken a firm footing in (an alternate) reality. I&#8217;m already thinking of the implications of the two quotes I mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>Fiat Mundos!<\/p>\n<p>(Note: That&#8217;s supposed to be &#8220;Let there be worlds!&#8221; in Latin. I&#8217;m open to corrections ;-))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just began reading a book that appears to have much to offer in the way of world-building ideas: What If the Earth Had Two Moons? And Nine Other Thought-provoking Speculations on the Solar System by Neil F. Comins. I&#8217;ve just finished the first chapter and even there I&#8217;ve already found the following &#8220;thought-provoking&#8221; ideas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,93],"tags":[7,95,94],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-world-building","tag-book","tag-science-2","tag-world-building-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}