Talk:Fiction on Lunarpedia

Are we active or passive?

The Lunarpedia community must decide if it wants to be active or passive. If we want to aggressively promote the idea of returning to the Moon to stay, we need to get a very large number of people in effective action on this idea.

A purely technical Lunarpedia will help technical people to be in action. It will not help non-technical people.

To reach non-technical people we must reach out. We must go were they live and feed them what they eat.

The story category is an experiment in reaching out to a much larger number of people. We need to keep it, at least long enough to find out if the experiment is going to succeed or fail.

--Jriley 05:22, 10 March 2007 (PST)

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It's not about being active or passive, and it's not technical versus non technical. Plain and simple, Lunarpedia is intended to be fact based. We're in the process of setting up a related wiki for fiction, but it wont be only lunar fiction. Should be up and running soon.

--MikeD 13:33, 10 March 2007 (GMT)

Not a problem. Just need to get ideas out and discussed.

We do need to get a clear purpose or mission statement on Lunarpedia that makes this clear. I have started a category to work out such ideas but I have not searched out The Moon Society's mission statement yet.

Thanks,

--Jriley 07:43, 10 March 2007 (PST)

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Hah!

I've been searching for that since 2000, haven't found it yet.

Lunarpedia was started mainly as a tool for encouraging growth, collaboration on projects, and very importantly, inter society relations by way of highlighting the commonalities in their goals instead of the differences.

We just put up a Mars wiki, that's almost ready to go public. The science fiction wiki will be aimed more towards budding authors than towards librarians. But the science part of the stories must be currently feasibl or at least look like it will be in the next few years.

Getting people to read and write about space stuff is important. I truly wish the Star Trek people had done a 21st century series complete with weightlessnes and space sickness and all the stuff we'll have to deal with for the first 50 - 100 years.

MikeD 18:07, 10 Mar 2007 (GMT)

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Hard Science Fiction

The type of fiction you are describing is called hard science fiction. It was invented by Jules Vern, but I am afraid it is quite out of fashion now. The limit on adult themes also makes these stories very retro. Stories of this type were the cutting-edge between about 1930 and 1960.

We can certainly move the stories themselves. The problem will be the useful support pages like "People on the Moon" and "Archetecture as Mole Hills". I am certain that these make a real contribution to people envisioning what a lunar settlement will be like.

In developing my Purposes pages I have found myself being so eclectic that I argue both sides of an arguement.

Thanks,

--Jriley 10:40, 10 March 2007 (PST)

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