What this project is
All the Myriad Worlds began with a simple question: what happens if you treat the real night sky as a map of places rather than a background of distant lights? The site is an attempt to answer that question through a mix of astronomy, literary history, and worldbuilding.
Some pages are closer to scientific atlases. Others are closer to interpretive maps. Together, they are meant to form one coherent destination: a site where real stars, exoplanet systems, and imagined settings can be understood in relation to one another.
What the atlas maps
Exoplanet Systems
Real confirmed planetary systems, with an emphasis on nearby stars, landmark destinations, and the larger survey fields that shaped modern exoplanet discovery.
Sci-Fi Stars
Published stories and settings attached to real stars beyond the solar system, treated as a literary geography rather than a generic database.
Solar System Stories
Fictional settings, stories, and narrative associations set within our own planetary system, approached as a local narrative environment.
How it is put together
The project combines curated editorial decisions with source-based scientific data. On the exoplanet side, the atlas draws primarily from the NASA Exoplanet Archive and from more curated local runtime datasets shaped for this site. On the science-fiction side, the work is more interpretive: matching stories to real stars, removing false associations, and keeping the map narrow enough to remain defensible.
That means the atlas is neither a neutral database nor a pure art project. It is a constructed public instrument. The aim is clarity, truthfulness, and usefulness, even where the site remains incomplete. A fuller public account lives on the Methodology & Sources page.
What comes next
The atlas is still growing. The exoplanet side is still being refined. The science-fiction map is closer to a stable public form. Shared Worlds is being developed as a more direct framework for collaborative, site-native worldbuilding that can sit beside the published-fiction atlas without collapsing into it.
Over time, the goal is not just to add more data, but to make the site feel more inhabited: richer system pages, better connective tissue between branches, and a clearer sense that the same sky can be read scientifically, historically, and imaginatively. A public snapshot of current priorities lives on the Roadmap.
Who is behind it
This is an independent project being built in public. It sits somewhere between atlas, essay, archive, and speculative instrument. Part of its character comes from that scale: it is not a studio product or institutional platform, but a deliberately authored site that is still finding its final shape.
If you want to follow its progress, the best places to start are the Project Journal and the Roadmap.