Mechanisms in Modern Engineering Design: A Handbook for Engineers, Designers and Inventors, Volume 2

A companion volume to the Language Construction Kit, this book explains everything you need to know about creating your own world with its own geology, creatures, cultures, religions, technology, and styles of war- plus how to create maps, illustrations and 3-D models. An essential whether you're writing science fiction or fantasy, designing RPGs, creating movies or video games, or remodeling a spare asteroid. Contents Introduction 7 E-Z Fantasy World 15 Storytelling 21 Astronomy and Geology 38 Biology 65 History 100 Culture 118 Daily life 152 Religion 189 Magic 218 Technology 224 War 243 Making maps 285 Illustrations 300 3-D Modeling 332 Further reading 351 Index 356