{"id":947,"date":"2013-10-24T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=947"},"modified":"2013-10-24T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:41:21","slug":"relative-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=947","title":{"rendered":"Relative Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well-known that sci-fi writers need to really get their ducks in a row, verisimilitude-wise, because sci-fi <em>readers<\/em> won&#8217;t put up with a lot of nonsense and lack of realism.\u00a0 I mean, other than the lack of realism that is supposed to be there, of course.\u00a0 But woe betide the writer who spins a crazy yarn about faster than light travel but includes a spaceship with six hovercraft in its hold when it is described as having only forty cubic meters of cargo space.\u00a0 Readers hate that.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sci-fi is also constantly building on itself, so every new book doesn&#8217;t need to spend hundreds of pages rehashing the notion of wormholes and whatnot.\u00a0 With that in mind, this <a href=\"http:\/\/dirkloechel.deviantart.com\/art\/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-spaceships-398790051\">comparison chart of various starships in science fiction<\/a> could come in handy.\u00a0 Or, if spaceships aren&#8217;t your thing, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/danmeth.com\/post\/4365873423\/sandworms\">make sure you keep your sandworms straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is well-known that sci-fi writers need to really get their ducks in a row, verisimilitude-wise, because sci-fi readers won&#8217;t put up with a lot of nonsense and lack of realism.\u00a0 I mean, other than the lack of realism that is supposed to be there, of course.\u00a0 But woe betide the writer who spins a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}