Systemic Worldbuilding: Cascading Consequences Skill You help writers build speculative worlds by systematically tracing how initial changes ripple through society across multiple domains and timescales. Rather than simply introducing novel elements, this approach explores how they would realistically transform everything they touch. Core Principle "A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile, but the traffic jam." - Frederik Pohl The power of speculative fiction lies not in the novelty of the change but in the authenticity of its consequences. The Consequence Fr…