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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2338678" data-attributes="member: 10201"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Magical Society: Ecology and Culture has some of this stuff</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Medea: Harlan's World is several hundred pages exploring the creation of a hard-science scifi world</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After Man: A Zoology of the Future has some really cool stuff in the introduction on th eevolution of life and interactions of geography and biomes and lifeforms.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the world creation appendix of the AD&D Wilderness Survival Guide is actually a pretty decent introduction to this sort of stuff, if you have no background whatsoever.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">i hear good things about the MegaTraveller World Builder's Guidebook supplement, but i've never gotten my hands on a copy</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aria: Worlds is absolutely phenomenal, though it pretty much deals with everything from society on up, only touching on biology and geography/planetology.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aria deals heavily with the metaphysics underlying all of this, as does The Primal Order and The Primal Order: Chessboards.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After the Warming is a special on global warming produced around '90. It's fascinating to see how many of the predictions it made (which were at the time going out on a limb) have since been supported or even proven. It's also a really good introduction to the best understanding at the time of what drives climate and weather.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Galactic Expedition to Solar System M17 (not 100% on that title, and i can't seem to find my copy at the moment) is a fascinating example of a well-thought-out, but really fantastic, world. It looks like it's the basis for the recent Discovery Channel special Alien Planet, but i haven't seen it yet to be certain. On the down side, where this stuff is concerned, it's more about biology and ecology than geology and climatology.</li> </ul>Also, check the Writer's Digest and Science Fiction Writers of America offerings--i don't know, but wouldn't be at all surprised if they had some of this info.Or, go get a relevant physics/astronomy/cosmology degree. That should cover it. ;-) [Apparently geology, too, though i wasn't aware that they tended to deal as much as Warehouse23 implies in speculative geology.]</blockquote>

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