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Tag: worldbuilding

Soft Goods (Grain Series)

August 27, 2026August 17, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

The berth was the tightest on the short arm and everyone said so. Notwithstanding had understood, coming in, that this was the thing to be glad of. Cane had traded a good adjustable for the curtain — heavy stuff, weighted at the hem — and after he hung it you could not hear the trolley … Continue reading Soft Goods (Grain Series)

The Grain: A World Bible in Eleven Modules

August 18, 2026August 17, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

Working title. A near-future hard-SF setting for a short story collection. What this is A shared world, not a plot. Eleven modules, each deriving from the ones before it, ending in a kit for making individual stories. Nothing here is a premise on its own; everything here is a condition stories happen inside. The setting … Continue reading The Grain: A World Bible in Eleven Modules

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