- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-01-23 - status-updated:: 2021-03-14 - status-updated:: 2022-02-22 - current-status:: #articleseed/essay - [S] Marketing - purpose:: Do it as part of a "connecting fiction and real life quirks" sort of a "how did the experts do it?" backwards mapping things like duarchies and modesitt to discuss different ways to learn things from fiction, in the same vein as [[2021-03-31 5 SFF Novels That Shed Light on Obscure History (DRAFT)]]. ## Backwards Mapping Fiction Figure out something good for the ([[2020-12-28 Spidersilk|vegetarian spider thing]]) and the infobox at the bottom can recommend Tchicovsky's spider book. Do it as part of a "connecting fiction and real life quirks" sort of a "how did the experts do it?" backwards mapping things like duarchies and modesitt. - Pern and the side-blotched lizard - adrian tchicovski: https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-in-Cephalopod-Molluscs-and-Decapod-Crustaceans-Final-Report-November-2021.pdf - [the northman](https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoriansAnswered/comments/uhw3ed/in_the_film_the_northman_a_prince_takes_part_in_a/) is not super accurate but does take inspiration from real things.