Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learning curve. Some of it is about raising audience literacy to the point where they understand that.
Jon SpaihtsAn X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.
Jon SpaihtsYou want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.
Jon SpaihtsFor a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.
Jon SpaihtsI grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.
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