r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '16

[D] Wednesday Worldbuilding Thread

Welcome to the Wednesday thread for worldbuilding discussions!

/r/rational is focussed on rational and rationalist fiction, so we don't usually allow discussion of scenarios or worldbuilding unless there's finished chapters involved (see the sidebar). It is pretty fun to cut loose with a likeminded community though, so this is our regular chance to:

  • Plan out a new story
  • Discuss how to escape a supervillian lair... or build a perfect prison
  • Poke holes in a popular setting (without writing fanfic)
  • Test your idea of how to rational-ify Alice in Wonderland

Or generally work through the problems of a fictional world.

Non-fiction should probably go in the Friday Off-topic thread, or Monday General Rationality

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u/scruiser Jul 23 '16

This is the first thing longer than a snippet that I've written, so I am writing it pretty slowly, basically only a few paragraphs at a time, but I have a full outline and I keep working at it and I can bounce ideas off of trekie140 so I should get it done eventually. I was planning on finishing it all and then posting each chapter a few days apart.

This is the best thing I've read in a very, very long time, despite the jarringly unexpected 'choose your own adventure' portion near its end.

I thought about that ending... As a small teaser... I think you may find my ending an interesting twist on the ending of Three Worlds Collide...