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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 18, 2018 6:37:38 GMT
Babylon 5 is of course my favorite space station. However, DS9 was fun, too. The Death Star was cool, but too explodey. The Expanse has a few, but none of them really excite me very much. And the real International Space Station is cool, but too squishy and floaty. Get back to me once you've figured out anti-grav.
What are your favorite space stations and why are they your favorite?
Do you have any space station pet peeves that you see a lot in books and on TV that always make you cringe?
This has to do with writing because I have a space station in TUOK.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 18, 2018 6:48:43 GMT
Here is a fun blog post I found discussing the many different kinds of space stations.
scifiideas.com/sfi/10-space-station-concepts/
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Oct 18, 2018 7:21:24 GMT
I've created several in my own books, so those will always have sentimental value to me.
That aside, I have to go with Babylon 4. (Ha! You thought I'd say Babylon 5, didn't you?  ) Let's just say I'm kind of enamored of the idea of a human-built space station populated completely by ancient Minbari and used as a war base to fight the Shadows. Something about that is just awesome. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Oct 18, 2018 16:11:42 GMT
Jeff Tanyard you might enjoy Distorted Mirror then. In one of the books Gareth added a whole backstory book dedicated to the Adventures of Valen in the First Shadow War. And because I can't link to this enough, here ya go - www.b5-dark-mirror.co.uk/
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Post by kateelizabeth on Oct 18, 2018 18:30:21 GMT
I'm going to go with anything except DS9. I still watched the show, but it was by far my least favorite Star Trek at the time.
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Post by corabuhlert on Oct 18, 2018 23:05:30 GMT
Babylon 4/5 are probably my favourites, too. Great design and a great story to go with it. As for Deep Space 9, I liked the station design, but DS9 was always my least favourite Star Trek show. The fact that it ran concurrently with B5 and has a similar plot didn't help either. The various Death Stars are great when you want to blow up a planet, but they're not places where you want to hang out or just go for a stroll along the promenade. The Expanse suffers from the "Turn up the bloody lights, will you?" syndrome that a lot of post-2000 SF shows suffer from.
Though I do have a soft spot for the ISS. Yes, it's not Babylon 5 or even the ring-shaped space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey (now that's a really cool design, too), but it's the only space station we have. Plus, I did some translation work for an ESA supplier, so I have a personal connection of sorts to the ISS. BTW, a model of the ISS hangs from the ceiling in the arrival hall of Bremen Airport, because the Columbus module and other parts were built here. As airport decoration goes, I've always thought that was pretty awesome.
I have one space station in my fiction, the space station Unity, which becomes the site of a terrible accident. Graveyard Shift, the story in question, basically chronicles the accident and aftermath. It's nominally part of my In Love and War series, though it could just as easily stand alone. I mainly made it part of the series, because I needed characters to play certain parts and a political and social backdrop for the story, so it made sense to plug it into a universe I had already created and use characters I already knew.
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Post by beaker on Oct 19, 2018 1:07:24 GMT
My favorite station is Kefk in CJ Cherryh's Chanur series that I'm reading again right now. It's on the edge of Kifish (rat-like people) space - a scary place where the Hani (cat people) always expect something bad to happen, and it does.
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) Let's just say I'm kind of enamored of the idea of a human-built space station populated completely by ancient Minbari and used as a war base to fight the Shadows. Something about that is just awesome.
