Space Ranger Manual
The Space Ranger Manual is the official transmission hub of Space Authors - packed with sci-fi writing insights, narrative engineering, worldbuilding tactics, story breakdowns, and enough caffeine-fueled space nerdery to keep your creative engines online.
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Codex
The Codex is the ever-expanding knowledge repository of Space Authors. Like a certain blue police box, it's bigger on the inside than it first appears. Inside you'll find articles, genre guides, worldbuilding resources, story engineering concepts, movie and book breakdowns, and practical tools for writing science fiction. Explore, learn, and return often - new knowledge is always being added.
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Sci-Fi Masterclasses
Sci-Fi deserves its own space. And its own craft education.
This exclusive Premium and VIP library contains in-depth video masterclasses covering every level of storytelling, from scene-level techniques to complete story blueprints. Explore character development, dialogue, pacing, tension, strong verbs, and other challenges of writing sci-fi.
It's an expanding resource you can return to whenever you need inspiration, guidance, or a fresh perspective.
Exclusive to VIP members. 🚀
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Draft Station
Similar to a Beta Club or Writing Circle. Bring your work to the table. Each month, a member volunteers a scene for a live, friendly group critique led by an author and/or editor. Members attending live are invited to join the conversation, share what worked for them, offer constructive feedback, and ask questions. Together, we’ll explore what’s working, where readers stumble, and ways to strengthen the scene without losing the writer’s vision. Scenes up to 2,000 words.
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Scrivener Training
Training and Q&A on using Scrivener to write and edit your stories
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Mostly Harmless Writing Challenges
Most Harmless Writing Challenges is a free ongoing prompt series designed to help science fiction writers strengthen their storytelling through practical scene work and narrative escalation.
Three times a week, members receive:
a Basic Prompt,
and an Advanced Prompt,
Just focused sci-fi story drills built to help you write sharper, stronger, more compelling fiction — one scene at a time.
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Mission Support
Find the people and services that help bring your book to life. Cover Designers · Copy/Line Editors · Formatters · Illustrators · Audiobook Services · Marketing · Publishing Services, etc.
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Beyond the Horizon Book Club
CURRENTLY ON HOLD. DRAFT STATION WILL BE REPLACING BOOK CLUB. This is a great place to learn how story structure works.In the Beyond the Horizon book club, we read a sci-fi novel, chose a date for a live discussion, then look at through the lens of the escalation engine. Why it worked? Where it maybe didn't work? Followed by discussion, debate... and who knows what else.
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Editor/Author Q&A Recordings
View past editor and author Q&As here.
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Worldbuilding Your Science Fiction
NEW COURSE COMING SOON. Great worldbuilding doesn’t come from spending ten years inventing 4,000 years of galactic tax law before writing Chapter One.
This course teaches you how to build immersive sci-fi worlds that feel vast, believable, and alive — without disappearing into an endless black hole of lore, maps, and planetary economics.
Build what matters. Write your story now. Save the galaxy later.
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Narrative Architecture for Science Fiction Writers
IN PROGRESS. July 20, 2026 - Learn to clarify your core story, strengthen your structure, and develop a narrative architecture you can follow as you write.
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