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Orion's Arm

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This article is about the online multi-author shared fictional world project. For a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, see Orion Arm. For the stars which form the arm of the Orion asterism, see Orion (constellation). For other uses, see Arm of Orion (disambiguation).

Orion's Arm Universe Project
FormerlyOrion's Arm Worldbuilding Group
Type of site
Crowdsourced writing community
Available inEnglish
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerOrion's Arm Universe Project, Inc.
Founders
URLwww.orionsarm.com
Launched2000

The Orion's Arm Universe Project (OA) is a multi-authored online hard science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and Anders Sandberg and further co-authored by many people since.[1] Anyone can contribute articles, stories, artwork, or music to the website.[2]

The first published Orion's Arm book, a collection of five novellas set within the OA universe, called Against a Diamond Sky,[3] was released in September 2009.[4]

Canon

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The fictional setting of Orion's Arm takes place about 10,000 years in the future, where an interstellar civilization spread across thousands of light-years, with inhabited planets and space habitats.[5] Its inhabitants range from humans to extensively modified human beings, including superhumans with advanced augmentations and internal AI systems, while most people exist as softwares. Engineered wormholes are used for interstellar travel and transport, although not for time travel. The setting also includes several alien civilizations and evidence of more advanced alien societies in the past. At its highest levels, directed human evolution has produced vast godlike beings linked across interstellar distances, capable of understanding and creating technologies beyond ordinary minds.[6]

Reception

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Orion's Arm has been reviewed in the role-playing magazine Knights of the Dinner Table,[7] as well as on Boing Boing by transhumanist science fiction author Cory Doctorow.[8]

References to the Encyclopaedia Galactica have been made in a book on overcoming Librarian stereotypes.[9]

The Orion's Arm website has also been recommended in a children's teaching guide.[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Tapscott, Colàs & Blat 2020, pp. 228–229.
  2. ^ Filimowicz & Tzankova 2021, p. 231.
  3. ^ The Orion's Arm Universe Project, Against A Diamond Sky: Tales from Orion's Arm Vol. 1, Outskirts Press, 2009, ISBN 1-4327-4099-7 ISBN 978-1432740993
  4. ^ "Outskirts Press announces Against A Diamond Sky from VA author The Orion's Arm Universe Project. - Outskirts Press, Inc". PRLog.org. September 13, 2009. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  5. ^ Prisco 2021, p. 75.
  6. ^ Prisco 2021, pp. 75–76.
  7. ^ Kenneth Newquist, Plunder Free RPGs on the Web, Knights of the Dinner Table #92, June 2004, p.66
  8. ^ Cory Doctorow (August 17, 2005). "Orion's Arm: CC-licensed, post-Singularity shared world / Boing Boing". Boingboing.net. Archived from the original on November 9, 2007. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
  9. ^ Ruth Kneale, (2009) You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age, Information Today, Inc., ISBN 1-57387-366-7, ISBN 978-1-57387-366-6 p.118
  10. ^ Timothy Tuck, Wonder wits teaching guide, Blake Education, 2006 ISBN 1-86509-917-1,ISBN 978-1-86509-917-0

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