Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
science fantasy
worldbuilding
setting
Phoenix
S F Said
sci-fantasy
describing technology
subjectivity
evaluation
judgements
beliefs
physical detail
precision and vagueness
exoticism
expansion
exaggeration
evoking mystery
repetition
emphasis
word choice
focus
project
The science part of science fantasy is usually just fantastic technology that extrapolates on existing technology. In this lesson we model a passage describing the Astrolabe, a piece of cosmic technology in the Phoenix universe, although on face value strikingly similar to a medieval device of the same name. The secret to making this kind of technology feel fantastic is in the subjective elements of descriptions: valuations, judgments and beliefs.