This is another really useful book from the Writer's Digest people. Probably it's most suited for you if you're actually planning/writing a sci-fi book, but it's also interesting if you're interested in words, language, writing, fiction, science, and sci-fi in general.
I am planning a science-fiction book, and someday--someday--I will work on it more rigorously, but there are a number of sections here that could help me plan or at least think about my future world with an "alien" planet and a space ship--chapters on space, habitable atmospheres, and the like.
But the topics covered are pretty broad, including, also, psychology, animal biology, DNA, etc.
There are no "magic bullets" here, I suppose--I'm going to have to think about all kinds of truths about the shape and matter of the universe, and I'll probably re-write all of physics with my genius theories about quantum mechanics, etc. (ha-ha), but this is useful stuff and will help you to think, and may even have some facts that will stop you from making specific mistakes.
I am planning a science-fiction book, and someday--someday--I will work on it more rigorously, but there are a number of sections here that could help me plan or at least think about my future world with an "alien" planet and a space ship--chapters on space, habitable atmospheres, and the like.
But the topics covered are pretty broad, including, also, psychology, animal biology, DNA, etc.
There are no "magic bullets" here, I suppose--I'm going to have to think about all kinds of truths about the shape and matter of the universe, and I'll probably re-write all of physics with my genius theories about quantum mechanics, etc. (ha-ha), but this is useful stuff and will help you to think, and may even have some facts that will stop you from making specific mistakes.