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That description applies to the entire movie. And, well, most movies these days. In other words, fight scenes are like any other scene. A fight scene with no emotion is like watching somebody else play a video game.

Venus has 92 times the surface pressure as Earth, even though it's slightly smaller. You have to be 60km above the surface of Venus to experience Earth sea level pressure.

I've been working on my novel for years. OK, I started a novel years ago and haven't worked on it much. I've had this general idea of the story and the climax and a few chapters of first draft. I recently bought two things that have changed everything. First is Scrivener. Second is...

Can't edit my post. What I meant to say is that the eclipses could be every orbit, not every day. That could be as little as a few days or up to a month or more depending on the orbit. It's not practical to have an orbit shorter than 3 days due to the extreme tidal forces and probability of...

That is a somewhat skewed view of the military and vets. I am a Marine Desert Storm vet, and have known countless other active duty and vets. It affects different people in different ways. Blanket generalizations are not accurate or useful. It is tempting to believe that it's worse than it...

I don't know what your motivations are behind the size but why not just make it near earth size? That's the easiest way to get the gravity and atmosphere you need for humans. As far as the eclipses, depending on the inclination to the plane of the ecliptic the eclipses could be every day or...

No, trojans do not orbit the body they are in synch with. I suppose if a planet was at a Lagrangian point it would be a trojan planet. My world has a trojan asteroid at the L2 point. Obviously the inhabitants don't know what asteroids are, much less what the Lagrangian points are. To them...

I do show some emotional impact from killing but in a fantasy world where life is short and danger is the natural condition the people aren't going to be affected as they are in our "civilized" society. I consider it like writing about war. Some people are more affected by the killing than...

In my case the antagonist is orchestrating a war but the soldiers who fight on the "evil" side are no different than the soldiers on the "good" side. The antagonist has simply duped them into believing the other side is evil.

I admit I didn't read all of the responses. I will just make a couple of observations. The moon will not be in the planet's shadow for two weeks. The closer to the planet or the bigger the planet, the faster the orbit. The slower the orbit speed the farther from the planet or the smaller the...

I don't use orcs. To me orcs and hobbits belong in Middle Earth. I'm more likely to use humans than anything else when it comes to hordes of evil creatures. For smaller encounters trolls and ghouls are among my favorites.

Yes. Since the question was about sci-fi. For future fantasy, self consistency is what matters.

At this moment I am just working on the opening scene, and this scene must be show. Glancing over my outline I see several other scenes that need to be show. If I thought the whole book had to be show I'd just quit now. :banghead: One thing that I'm really not looking forward to is...

I'm re-writing my opening scene. Again. I think from now on instead of saying I'm a writer I'll say I'm a re-writer. Wormtongue the Fantasy Re-writer. Anyway, changing every line of tell into show is hard work. In my defense, I'm an engineer and a tech writer and I'm well trained to write...

I do have made up swears in my world for a particular race. My main protagonist is fond of saying "pesht!" in situations where f**k! might be used, and "peshta" in place of f**king. But that's him speaking in his native language, not in the common tongue. What I'm trying to decide is if I...