From A Grain of Sand

World-building a Planet Centuries and Light Years Away

Photo by author; ID: Girl in bathing suit building towers of wet sand on a beach

Worlds can be as big as we want them, whether as small as a vulnerable moment or vast and expansive as the universe.

I can’t stop thinking about Ithaka. It is a town on the planet Minos which was colonized by Earth’s billionaires in secret. Only, it didn’t stay that way. The people who paid, were swindled, or…