Research Planning

Stuff I intend to research, mostly for the TDEC material. When done, I should write a brief summary of the subject and how it relates to the creative writing project, linked from the main TDECResearch page.

2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010

Babylon 5

Brave New World partly intended as a parody of Men Like Gods also relevant: Amusing Ourselves to Death. pop culture influence

Lois McMaster Bujold -- the Vorkosigan Saga.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Computational Universe Theory Wikipedia article is disappointingly sketchy. It from Bit Physical Roots of It from Bit

Coruscant in the Star Wars movies and books. The cultures of TDEC are big/rich/old/technologically advanced enough to have achieved this level of population density. However, David Morgan-Mar, in his Irregular Webcomic, has pointed out a number of problems with Coruscant. Food delivery, sewage, waste heat, thermodynamics, farm land/volume, Death of Annoying the Cartoonist.

Cosy catastrophes including the classic Day of the Triffids

Day the Earth Stood Still

Deconstruction related articles for reference: Structuralism, Post-structuralism

Destroy All Planets

A Digital Life Scientific American article. Real-time digital recording of experience.

Empathy in psychotherapy study by Dr. Carl Marci. Social neuroscience. NARSAD Mental Health Research Association Harvard University Gazette Massachussetts General Hospital Vanguard in Action

Foundation

Heuristics

Identity of Indiscernibles. In the TDEC universe, it is definitely the case that two things can be identical and yet not be the same. This includes sapient beings.

Lolita fashion Reference for the character Harmony Brown. Harm's probably not exactly a Lolita girl, but her "too cute for her own good" theme extends to how she dresses.

Lord of the Rings

Lost and Found

Lost in Space

H.P. Lovecraft and the philosophy of Cosmicism. It's really silly to think that the caperings of the human microbes resident on the dust speck known as "Earth" should have any significance or meaning to the rest of the cosmos.

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mind reading, intent add or subtract

Michael Moorcock -- Wikipedia article. Moorcock's Miscellany official site?

Omega Point note: Wikipedia article is up for deletion. Apparently safe for now.

Out of the Silent Planet

Reality: Alternate Reality Game, Simulated Reality, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality

Scientific method See the "see also" links.

Shakesphere: MacBeth, The Tempest

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Wars

The Tempest

Theodicy tries to answer "If God is good, why does evil exist?" Important question to the aliens. It would be a good exercise to run through the "Examples" section and work out the aliens' opinion of each example.

Theory of Everything. TOE (or possible lack thereof) in philosopy. Cosmic Origin of Quantization one attempt to unify gravitation and quantum physics, I think.

The Thing

Things to Come

Unified field theory

A.E. Van Vogt, The World of Null-A. The aliens make use of non-Aristotelian logic.

War of the Worlds

Worldbuilding Jeff Wilson GURPS Resources Online RPG Site has worldbuilding resources

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