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This last birthday has been something of a milestone for my alter ego, as well as myself. Roughly 15 years ago. . . and I say roughly because I can't remember the specific date. . . 'Rukis' came into being.
Most furry folks may not realize it, but the alias name I use here is actually not from a furry character, or anything like it. 'Rukis Croax' was an alien character I made up when I was fifteen, and he was part of a cast of characters in the first novel series I ever wrote. Which, yes. . . I wrote when I was fifteen. So no, you can't read it :P At least not until it's been entirely re-written some day.
Besides which, it's scifi, so most of you likely wouldn't care to :P
Rukis is still close to my heart, working on pictures of him and his series, and world-building for those books, was the foundation of everything I am able to do today. So even if you've never met him before, you've all sort of met him ;)
Rukis is part of an alien race I created as a teenager, called 'Fujis'. Their style of clothing probably still influences how I clothe my characters today, even though it was scifi-inspired.
Menagerie folks will get to see this pic uncensored ;) He is my 'alien' submission this year.
Anyway. . . it's been a trip down memory lane. Some day, maybe I'll force some scifi into this account in a bigger way. . . maybe make some fuzzy aliens to tempt you all. It was my first true nerd love, and still kind of is.
Most furry folks may not realize it, but the alias name I use here is actually not from a furry character, or anything like it. 'Rukis Croax' was an alien character I made up when I was fifteen, and he was part of a cast of characters in the first novel series I ever wrote. Which, yes. . . I wrote when I was fifteen. So no, you can't read it :P At least not until it's been entirely re-written some day.
Besides which, it's scifi, so most of you likely wouldn't care to :P
Rukis is still close to my heart, working on pictures of him and his series, and world-building for those books, was the foundation of everything I am able to do today. So even if you've never met him before, you've all sort of met him ;)
Rukis is part of an alien race I created as a teenager, called 'Fujis'. Their style of clothing probably still influences how I clothe my characters today, even though it was scifi-inspired.
Menagerie folks will get to see this pic uncensored ;) He is my 'alien' submission this year.
Anyway. . . it's been a trip down memory lane. Some day, maybe I'll force some scifi into this account in a bigger way. . . maybe make some fuzzy aliens to tempt you all. It was my first true nerd love, and still kind of is.
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Honestly, I would love to see some sci-fi from you. This site, as a whole, I feel is sorely lacking good sci-fi works, and I know only a few who do such on any regular basis, at least when it comes to the level of technology portrayed in their works.
Why is is that it seems so many artists around here seem hesitant to do sci-fi looking works? It's not like anthros and such are limited to fantasy and modern fiction.
Why is is that it seems so many artists around here seem hesitant to do sci-fi looking works? It's not like anthros and such are limited to fantasy and modern fiction.
Depends on the sci-fi. Oftentimes, "sophisticated technology" is all the explanation most people need. It's not like you see a lot of people putting down Star Wars or Transformers and the like because they don't explain how hyperspace and morphing machines work. People didn't need to understand the engineering of the giant robots to enjoy Pacific Rim. And in art, do you really need to know how that power armor or laser gun works to look cool? Does one really need to explain nano-technology? It is very possible to treat sci-fi much as one would treat fantasy. While having a plausible explanation makes it more believable and immerse, I don't think it's mandatory.
Agreed. There are also many many "science fantasy" scenarios, such as Star Wars, that have advanced technology but are more on the fantasy side of things anyway. Plus it's honestly debatable whether sci-fi is harder to make than fantasy (I always thought my world was relatively easy to create as a sci-fi, for example). But it's also true that furries tend to prefer more organic and fanciful things as it touches closer to animalistic concepts that seem to be at the route of the fandom in general.
*ahem*
*puting on the Doctor's hat*
Explaining Science Fiction.
If your story takes place on another planet, you have to 'explain' how they got there. You can say 'Hyperspace drive', which is fine.
BUT...
you as the writer have to know how long the trip takes, as it influences the rest of your universe.
Does it take years, making it a one-way trip? What's the use of coming back home and no one knows you anymore because you were gone ten years or longer. If there is no FTL communication, any colony planet will have gone different ways socially and polticly, maybe even economicly.
Babylon 5 has FTL travel, but it is rather slow and only a few colonies have been founded. A trip to Babylon 5 is something few people from Earth do and we see it several times in the show how it overwhelms them. FTL communication is possible, but very expensive, so most (civillian) 'calls' take place through recorded messages.
Star Trek has FTL travel and trips throughout the Federation are easy if one has a reason for them. Especially from member planet to member planet. On a galactic scale, exploration has not been extensive. It becomes more difficult the more remote a place is. Some colonies and outposts can be rather difficult to reach, because they are rarely visited by ships. Depending on he distance your travel time can be days or even months, depending on the distance and ship at your disposal. FTL communication is cheap and commonplace.
Star Wars has FTL travel and travelling between systems is commonplace even at the time of the Empire. The range is mostly limited by needing the coordinates for the place you want to go in the entire galaxy. Everyone seems to understand a few languages simply by being around so many aliens. FTL communication exists, but has been limited to military communication since the rise of the Empire. In the Old Republic it was commonplace for civillians as well.
As a writer you have to figure these things out and if you want your readers to stay with you, you have to remember it when it comes up. Today you can't expect to get a free pass like Star Trek when they beam through shields, fire phasers at warp and mess up ship sizes. Star Trek gets a lot more leeway than you will as it was one of the first shows like that.
All technologies have ramifications. If a technology can be used one way, it can be used another. If it isn't, you have to explain why it isn't.
Recent example: Star Trek: Into Darkness
The 'portable transwarp beaming device' used by Khan makes Starships reduntant. In the movie Khan beams from Earth to Qo'noS, the capital planet of the Klingon Empire. If you have that, what do you need Starships for? Anything can be anywhere in a matter of seconds. Space exploration can be done by drones beamed to a location and beamed back when they are done scanning. They discover a habitable planet? Let's build a transwarp transporter that can send an entire science outpost there. If a handheld device can beam one person, a larger installation should be able to do that. A member of an away team gets into troule? A push of a button or vocal command and his own beaming device transports him to savety or even to medical.
Not to do so would make the Federation and Starfleet institutions that callously sacrifice their own citizens and crews lives without need.
And please don't tell mme they limited the device elswhere. A movie and a novel has to stand on it's own with no further explanationsneeded. If there isn't a limit mentioned in the movie, there is no limit. Or would you watch a movie or read a novel were you have to buy an enzyclopedia for?
No, I don't need to know how a power armor works, but I have to know it's strenth, durability under fire, it's limitations like how long the life support lasts and I have to remember that when it comes up in a story.
These are the things that have to be explained. That's what makes Science Fiction more complicated to write than Fantasy.
*taking the hat off*
To put it more simply. Look at this picture from Boris Vallejo: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1089/.....7f2_z.jpg?zz=1
In Fantasy, you can simply show this picture or describe it. No one would question the logic and simply take it as it is.
In Science Fiction, you better have an explanation for it, no matter how much mumbo jumbo technobabble you have to use, but you have to explain it why it is possible. Be it a hologram, matter expansion or anything else, but you have to eplain it.
P.S. I have a Trading Card from this piture where he says exactly this in slightly other words. My take above is adapted from other, much more experienced writers than I will ever be. I'm mostly just a general Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan.
*puting on the Doctor's hat*
Explaining Science Fiction.
If your story takes place on another planet, you have to 'explain' how they got there. You can say 'Hyperspace drive', which is fine.
BUT...
you as the writer have to know how long the trip takes, as it influences the rest of your universe.
Does it take years, making it a one-way trip? What's the use of coming back home and no one knows you anymore because you were gone ten years or longer. If there is no FTL communication, any colony planet will have gone different ways socially and polticly, maybe even economicly.
Babylon 5 has FTL travel, but it is rather slow and only a few colonies have been founded. A trip to Babylon 5 is something few people from Earth do and we see it several times in the show how it overwhelms them. FTL communication is possible, but very expensive, so most (civillian) 'calls' take place through recorded messages.
Star Trek has FTL travel and trips throughout the Federation are easy if one has a reason for them. Especially from member planet to member planet. On a galactic scale, exploration has not been extensive. It becomes more difficult the more remote a place is. Some colonies and outposts can be rather difficult to reach, because they are rarely visited by ships. Depending on he distance your travel time can be days or even months, depending on the distance and ship at your disposal. FTL communication is cheap and commonplace.
Star Wars has FTL travel and travelling between systems is commonplace even at the time of the Empire. The range is mostly limited by needing the coordinates for the place you want to go in the entire galaxy. Everyone seems to understand a few languages simply by being around so many aliens. FTL communication exists, but has been limited to military communication since the rise of the Empire. In the Old Republic it was commonplace for civillians as well.
As a writer you have to figure these things out and if you want your readers to stay with you, you have to remember it when it comes up. Today you can't expect to get a free pass like Star Trek when they beam through shields, fire phasers at warp and mess up ship sizes. Star Trek gets a lot more leeway than you will as it was one of the first shows like that.
All technologies have ramifications. If a technology can be used one way, it can be used another. If it isn't, you have to explain why it isn't.
Recent example: Star Trek: Into Darkness
The 'portable transwarp beaming device' used by Khan makes Starships reduntant. In the movie Khan beams from Earth to Qo'noS, the capital planet of the Klingon Empire. If you have that, what do you need Starships for? Anything can be anywhere in a matter of seconds. Space exploration can be done by drones beamed to a location and beamed back when they are done scanning. They discover a habitable planet? Let's build a transwarp transporter that can send an entire science outpost there. If a handheld device can beam one person, a larger installation should be able to do that. A member of an away team gets into troule? A push of a button or vocal command and his own beaming device transports him to savety or even to medical.
Not to do so would make the Federation and Starfleet institutions that callously sacrifice their own citizens and crews lives without need.
And please don't tell mme they limited the device elswhere. A movie and a novel has to stand on it's own with no further explanationsneeded. If there isn't a limit mentioned in the movie, there is no limit. Or would you watch a movie or read a novel were you have to buy an enzyclopedia for?
No, I don't need to know how a power armor works, but I have to know it's strenth, durability under fire, it's limitations like how long the life support lasts and I have to remember that when it comes up in a story.
These are the things that have to be explained. That's what makes Science Fiction more complicated to write than Fantasy.
*taking the hat off*
To put it more simply. Look at this picture from Boris Vallejo: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1089/.....7f2_z.jpg?zz=1
In Fantasy, you can simply show this picture or describe it. No one would question the logic and simply take it as it is.
In Science Fiction, you better have an explanation for it, no matter how much mumbo jumbo technobabble you have to use, but you have to explain it why it is possible. Be it a hologram, matter expansion or anything else, but you have to eplain it.
P.S. I have a Trading Card from this piture where he says exactly this in slightly other words. My take above is adapted from other, much more experienced writers than I will ever be. I'm mostly just a general Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan.
...I was mostly referring to art, not literature (along with movies and similar), though perhaps my examples were poor choices in that they were misleading in my intention, which is an error on my part. While the few sci-fi artists I do know of have actually created worlds with all said explanations, the art itself can be enjoyed without knowing most, if anything, of what's going on in the background.
To a point, any work of fiction, at least fantasy and sci-fi, to have any real depth and pull, needs world building. As a writer, I know the writer needs to work these things out, even if the reader never explicitly sees it. It creates a consistency and continuity that readers will often notice in a subliminal way. Explaining the capabilities of advanced technology is only a little more complicated than explaining the capabilities of magic: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both need to be explained as to why the can do this but can't do that. The only thing that makes technology more complicated is that, being more grounded in the real and material, people will be more inclined to know how it works, as science has well known rules where magic does not. In a non-magic world, it's virtually almost historical fiction without needing to keep to the constraints of real world history. Most people will be familiar with most everything already there to a point, and all that needs to be explained is the current culture and society, like with Red Lantern
Take these images:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11999493/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10643943/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7269395/
Are these images really that much more exponentially difficult to conceptualize and for the viewer to enjoy?
To a point, any work of fiction, at least fantasy and sci-fi, to have any real depth and pull, needs world building. As a writer, I know the writer needs to work these things out, even if the reader never explicitly sees it. It creates a consistency and continuity that readers will often notice in a subliminal way. Explaining the capabilities of advanced technology is only a little more complicated than explaining the capabilities of magic: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both need to be explained as to why the can do this but can't do that. The only thing that makes technology more complicated is that, being more grounded in the real and material, people will be more inclined to know how it works, as science has well known rules where magic does not. In a non-magic world, it's virtually almost historical fiction without needing to keep to the constraints of real world history. Most people will be familiar with most everything already there to a point, and all that needs to be explained is the current culture and society, like with Red Lantern
Take these images:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11999493/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10643943/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7269395/
Are these images really that much more exponentially difficult to conceptualize and for the viewer to enjoy?
No, and yes.
No, in theory they are not more difficult to conceptualize.
At the same time they are, but not for the same reason you might think.
Your examples are commissions. The people paying for the commissions have created the characters and the worlds they live in. And as Science Fiction worlds are more difficult to create, there are not so many around.
Someone has to think that stuff up and someone has to visualize it. Both are very different skills. That's why graphic artists need inspiration.
No, in theory they are not more difficult to conceptualize.
At the same time they are, but not for the same reason you might think.
Your examples are commissions. The people paying for the commissions have created the characters and the worlds they live in. And as Science Fiction worlds are more difficult to create, there are not so many around.
Someone has to think that stuff up and someone has to visualize it. Both are very different skills. That's why graphic artists need inspiration.
Douglas Adams wrote humor first and Science Fiction second.
Humor has it's own rule. It must make the reader laugh.
Writing has no rules, true. Genres do. If you break the basic rules of a genre you will either confuse the reader of loose him, because genre's help the reader to find what he wants to read. That's why you have to deliver this as a writer.
Humor has it's own rule. It must make the reader laugh.
Writing has no rules, true. Genres do. If you break the basic rules of a genre you will either confuse the reader of loose him, because genre's help the reader to find what he wants to read. That's why you have to deliver this as a writer.
I dunno why you say nobody here would be interested in sci-fi. Clearly more than a handful of your watchers are interested. Heck, my first real introduction to furry was through sci-fi.
I'd probably be more interested in this sci-fi story of yours than your current ongoing stories.
I'd probably be more interested in this sci-fi story of yours than your current ongoing stories.
Ms. You have proven yourself to be a gifted writer, and artist. So to me, if you posted an entry of a phone book I would be very interested in reading :)
The way you created your personna, reminds me of how my first writing coach :shadwalk: created his. He said that long before he came on the fur community, he was a half-elf in a D&D game in high school, named 'Shadowwalker' A very mysterious individual.
Mine isn't as spectacular. The name - gifted to me by one I met here - my early species, gifted to me by Shadowwalker when he brought me to the community.
I however have made her, me.
The way you created your personna, reminds me of how my first writing coach :shadwalk: created his. He said that long before he came on the fur community, he was a half-elf in a D&D game in high school, named 'Shadowwalker' A very mysterious individual.
Mine isn't as spectacular. The name - gifted to me by one I met here - my early species, gifted to me by Shadowwalker when he brought me to the community.
I however have made her, me.
I think you'd have at least a following amongst several of us here, where you to drop some of your sci fi goodness into our lives. Your style of writing paints a very clear and deep picture of the characters, landscapes, and events. If you ever do decide to drop some Sci Fi out here, I think it would be eaten up by the Sci Fi nerdies amongst us!
Don;t like Sci-Fi *Hmmph!!!* I was trolling all the Sci-Fi book store when I was 15 looking for stories with alien creatures in them. Hopefully furry. I loved and re-read Ann McCaffrey's Doona series countless times, and Alan Dean Fosters IceRigger.
In many ways before there was 'Furry' there was Sci-Fi and all the mtriad aliens within.
In many ways before there was 'Furry' there was Sci-Fi and all the mtriad aliens within.
You do realize that the Furry Fandom was born out of the Sci-Fi fandom right?
Most fandoms have about a 50% overlap with at least one other fandom, so sci fi and fantasy are pretty much holding hands and furry is one of their many illegitimate children.
And damn, but I am jonesin for some more OtBP, or Red Lantern.
Most fandoms have about a 50% overlap with at least one other fandom, so sci fi and fantasy are pretty much holding hands and furry is one of their many illegitimate children.
And damn, but I am jonesin for some more OtBP, or Red Lantern.
love sci-fi!
i once had a culture that would will their bodies away to be eaten at a feast upon their death. it was a great honor to be invited. sort of a hangover from a time when their planet was overpopulated, and famine was common. it was better to have lots of friends than lots of money or things.
i once had a culture that would will their bodies away to be eaten at a feast upon their death. it was a great honor to be invited. sort of a hangover from a time when their planet was overpopulated, and famine was common. it was better to have lots of friends than lots of money or things.
well I guess I count towards that minority of readers then that would love to read a sci-fi from you!
I know the feeling though. I wrote a few chapters of my trilogy in my early teenage years before getting bogged down and distracted with that whole "oh god high school" nonsense we all go through! Since then I've been constantly reworking plots, details, characters etc. in my head, over and over and OVER! I desperately want to get it fleshed out enough with deep enough lore I can sit down and knock out the first book. I've just been too busy and unfocused to get to that part yet. It's also where my fursona comes from too! Yay sci-fi sona's!
SO here's to hoping we can both get our re-writes some day. ANd let me know when you get yours, I'll be first in line for the pre-order and book signing :P
I know the feeling though. I wrote a few chapters of my trilogy in my early teenage years before getting bogged down and distracted with that whole "oh god high school" nonsense we all go through! Since then I've been constantly reworking plots, details, characters etc. in my head, over and over and OVER! I desperately want to get it fleshed out enough with deep enough lore I can sit down and knock out the first book. I've just been too busy and unfocused to get to that part yet. It's also where my fursona comes from too! Yay sci-fi sona's!
SO here's to hoping we can both get our re-writes some day. ANd let me know when you get yours, I'll be first in line for the pre-order and book signing :P
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