Category: Worldbuilding

Airships incorporate traditional and invented sails in “A Philosophy of Air.” Learn about how I thought through this aspect of worldbuilding.

Continuing my discussion of worldbuilding for “A Philosophy of Air”, I discuss the physics of airships in my world. Part one of two.

The sursus is a key feature of the world of A Philosophy of Air. Learn how this poison sea affects the world both practically and symbolically.

A Philosophy of Air delves into a rich sea of language, some invented, some sourced from history.

The world of A Philosophy of Air For those new to my blog, my name’s Marc and I’m writing a fantasy novel called A Philosophy of Air. A Philosophy of Air is “naturalistic fantasy,” in which a fantastic premise crashes against an otherwise realistic world. Without magic, fantastical creatures, or mysteriously predestined heroes, this tale…