This is the fourteenth in a series of posts about important aspects of worldbuilding. You can find a compilation of all these posts under “Worldbuilding Basics” on my blog.
When you’re creating a new story world, it’s important to have a basic grasp of how science works so you can portray things realistically. The science and technology in science fiction and fantasy aren’t real, it’s true, but it makes your story a lot more believable if you base your world’s science on real science. Speaking as someone who works in the sciences myself, reading badly written science makes me cringe! So let’s figure out how to avoid that. Click the read-more, and we’ll begin!