Crafting strange fiction from stranger fact.
When I was growing up, we only knew of nine planets. Most of them were so wildly different from each other that we had no idea what to expect from planets around other stars – or whether any of those even existed. The idea of a tenth planet – planet X – was mysterious and … Continue reading Where Do Planets Come From?
Today’s blog entry will be much shorter than Friday’s, for one simple reason: Class K “orange dwarf” stars are much less terrifying than Class M red dwarfs. That means there are fewer survival challenges and requirements for your characters. Class K stars are something of a “happy medium” between our own Sun and red dwarfs. … Continue reading Orange Dwarfs: Life Around Class K Stars
I hope you’re all ready for a super-blog. We’ve got a lot to cover in this introduction to star type + the perils of life around a red dwarf star, so let’s jump right in. The stars in the sky all look pretty much the same from Earth. If we can see them at all, … Continue reading Life Around Red Dwarf Stars
As a child, I was fascinated by the planets. I think the solar system one of those things that all children are fascinated by, like dinosaurs. At that age we are completely engrossed in learning about our world, and the thought of another world that’s not like the one we see around us is even … Continue reading A Hundred Billion Suns, Part 1
C. L. Kagmi 