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Cedar  ·  3538 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Worldbuilding 101: What's Your Seed?

The seed for my sci-fi world came from Chris Hadfield explaining how feet in space become soft on the bottom and more calloused on the top as they are used to cling on to and push off from things in low gravity.

I'm probably wrong but I think in his book he presented this as ape-like hands-for-feet, and that idea just struck me and I instantly had this vision of a simian space-trader moving about his ship, with almost the exact style of Daft Punk's Interstellar 5555. From there I've played with the idea a lot and the world has grown around that seed though I definitely will have one story feature that character in that scene.