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Map Food Webs Early
- Map food webs: ask what eats what, who are apex predators, and how population sizes scale.
- Use these relationships to set reproduction rates, plant growth speeds, and ecosystem balance.
Recommended Model: A Fire Upon The Deep
- Brandon recommends A Fire Upon the Deep for its inventive low-tech group-mind aliens.
- He praises Vernor Vinge's rich alien ecology and human interactions as exemplary worldbuilding.
Treat Life Cycles As Plot Tools
- Design life cycles deliberately: include metamorphosis, growth rates, and breeding triggers to affect culture and plot.
- Use life-stage differences to create unique interactions and story hooks.