George R.R. Martin has been keep busy with the latest installment of hisSong of Ice and Fireseries , but that does n’t mean he has no time for side project . AsThe Daily Beastreports , the phantasy generator is taking a departure from novel - writing to figure out on a picture game helm by Neil deGrasse Tyson .
DeGrasse Tyson ’s game , titledSpace Odyssey , is currently seeking funding onKickstarter . He envisions an interactive , desktop experience that will allow player to create and research their own planets while find out about physics at the same time . To do this correctly , he and his team are work with some of the brightest minds in skill like Bill Nye , former NASA cosmonaut Mike Massimino , and astrophysicist Charles Liu . The lean of collaborators also includes a few unexpected names — like Martin , the man who gave usGame of Thrones .
Though Martin has more experience write about dragons in Westeros than robots in KO’d space , deGrasse Tyson believes his world - construction skills will be essential to the labor . “ For me [ with]Game of Thrones … I wish that they ’re make a humankind that require to be ego - reproducible , ” deGrasse Tyson told The Daily Beast . “ Create any world you want , just make it self - reproducible , and base it on something accessible . I ’m a big fan of Mark Twain ’s quote : ‘ First get your fact straight . Then distort them at your leisure time . ’ ”
Other giants from the worlds of scientific discipline fiction and fantasy , include Neil Gaiman and Len Wein ( co - creator of Marvel ’s Wolverine character ) , have signed on to help with that same part of the summons . The crusade forSpace Odysseyhas until Saturday , July 29 to reach its $ 314,159 funding goal — of which it has already kick upstairs more than $ 278,000 . If the video game gets discharge , you could expect it to be the nerdiest Neil deGrasse Tyson project since hisaudiobookwith LeVar Burton .
[ h / tThe Daily Beast ]
