And that big important aspect is, of course: Location, location, location. hmmm) so here I'll just try and sum up their thoughts on most important aspect, re-mixed for SciFi instead of SETI. Much more than a blog posts worth (I'll have to write a book. That means there's a lot of stuff been written that can help you. Not for fiction, but because they think we should be checking the sky in case there really is one somewhere. I've spent far too much time reading papers and sitting courses on the search for extraterrestrial intelligences, so I know a surprising fact: Some very very clever brains (they include Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan) have devoted serious man hours to what a huge galactic civilisation could be like. And you can't look that stuff up with Google. With a way of being founded and of expanding that makes sense. And write it a plausible sounding history. ![]() The problem is that, to help your readers suspend their disbelief, you now have to figure out a believable interstellar civilisation. You need an evil galactic empire, or a benevolent planetary federation, to set your scorching page turner of space opera in. You can find how I derived this equation here.
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