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How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1

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Spaceships Aren't Clostrophobic

TV spaceships tend not to be costrophobic and cluttered if they're even a little bit into the future. And i think that's directly related to film and television having to have spaces that are large enough for the physical camera to move around in. The martian, which is themediutly near future, contemporaneous tech level. And yet the inter of the spaceship is enormous. There's that gymnasium, if like four, a row of four elliptical trainer machines next to the next, to the treadmills. Yet i could probably fit the whole i s s in that three times.

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