The Light Side of the Moon rewrite took a lot out of me. Not only did I feel like I was able to make the characters more lifelike, I did more research in order to make the story sing with science and facts. Or at least so I don’t sound like an idiot. I’ve written before about how I believe in specific directed research.
This is some of the topics I researched for The Light Side of the Moon and some of the books and links I used:
- Lunar Colonization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon
- Lunar Lava Tubes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Serenitatis
- Map of the moon http://www.lunasociety.org/atlas/
- Equipment in a medical lab (I was spell checking words like electrophoresis apparatus and ultracentrifuge)
- How do doctors test for radiation poison? http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/radiation-sickness/basics/symptoms/con-20022901
- British terms of endearment (I wondered if Royce should be calling Ian anything other that Ian or Son. And was Dad the most appropriate words for Royce.) http://www.anglotopia.net/british-identity/humor/top-100-most-beautiful-british-slang-words-and-phrases/
- British Swearing — I asked my friend and author Dan Thompson
- German Swearing — I just asked my friend Evan
- French Phrase Book for the word “Help Me!”
- Syphilis 2nd stage http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/tc/syphilis-symptoms
- 1800’s prison treatments http://www.ushistory.org/us/26d.asp
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