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Artifexian: Gas Giant Facts
When it comes to worldbuilding on the planetary level, rarely do we give enough thought to gas giants. They are often, wrongfully, dismissed as being boring! On the contrary, gas giants, or more...
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Artifexian: Extrasolar Gas Giants
As I’ve mentioned before giant planets are often, wrongfully, left out of the worldbuilding process. Even if I concede that the gas giants in our system (classical gas giants) are dull, no such...
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Artifexian Podcast: #0 Worldbuilding: A Defintion
To mark the one year anniversary of Artifexian, I decided to launch a podcast. The Artifexian Podcast. In this, our first episode, myself and long time friend Bill McGrath, attempt to define the term...
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The Trouble with Terrestrial Planets | Artifexian
When constructing terrestrial planets, a worldbuilder needs to work with three important variables: mass, radius and density. Set those values correctly and the result with be a small rocky planet. Set...
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7 (Poké)planet Types | Artifexian
Terrestrial planets can be so much more than just barren, rocky planets or earth analogs. In this Artifexian video, I go through seven types of terrestrial planet that, I think, would make very...
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Artifexian Podcast #1 : Thoughts on Stars
Artifexian Podcast #1 : Thoughts on Stars. Edgar and Bill discuss the superbowl, UFC and stellar bodies. Listen as Bill tears apart most of Edgar’s early videos on stars, but Edgar gets his own back by...
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Sciency Words: The Gaia Principle
Today’s post is part of a special series that first appeared on Planet Pailly. Every Thursday, we take a look at a new and interesting scientific term to help us all expand our scientific vocabularies...
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How To Create An Alien Species In 3 Stages
It’s Alien August here at SciFiIdeas.com, and an autographed copy of my novel The Deep Link is part of the Prize Package! Isn’t that awesome? I love all aliens—from little green men, to large bionic...
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Inter-species Commerce in Science Fiction
The following article was submitted to us by Trevor Marsh, author of Politics by Other Means. As an avid science fiction fan, and a fledgling science fiction novelist, one thing that has always...
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Sciency Words: Chaos Terrain
Sciency Words is a special series originally created for Planet Pailly celebrating the rich and colorful world of science and science-related terminology. Today, we’re looking at the term: Chaos...
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