Moonfall and the Seven Realms of Man

[Wired]

Thanks.

Yeah, I realized early on that people with a modicum of interest in cartography and other planets would rather easily figure out that it's Mars after an axis shift. But I mainly do this to help me visualize the world building I'm doing, and if it helps me hone my skills in Photoshop: the more the better.

Gravity would actually be one of those things with a major impact on how the characters see their world. While the initial terraformers would have had the technology to remedy this with large artificial gravity fields that was lost after the collapse. As such the actual colonial humans by the time the setting depicts would simply be the mythical and - by then - vanished "small folk", with the characters in the setting looking a lot more alien in reality due to the exposure to low G environments...

[acrosome]

Yeah, I realized early on that people with a modicum of interest in cartography and other planets would rather easily figure out that it's Mars after an axis shift.

Well, I'm sort of a Mars fanboy, too. That's why it was so difficult for me to switch mindset to Venus.

Gravity would actually be one of those things with a major impact on how the characters see their world. While the initial terraformers would have had the technology to remedy this with large artificial gravity fields that was lost after the collapse. As such the actual colonial humans by the time the setting depicts would simply be the mythical and - by then - vanished "small folk", with the characters in the setting looking a lot more alien in reality due to the exposure to low G environments...

Ah, so they are tall, thin folk as were KSR's Martian natives...

[Wired]

Who's KSR?

[acrosome]

Who's KSR?

Kim Stanley Robinson. He wrote the Mars Trilogy. Great read.