Daylight

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A shared world science-fiction setting for Daria fanfiction. Daylight was created and placed online in October 2008, open for any fanfic writers to use as they pleased. The only "rule" was that no one was allowed to write a boring story. The "bible" main page is on Dariaverse.com.

The idea for Daylight came from numerous sources, the main one being Larry Niven's award-winning short story, "Inconstant Moon." J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World helped a little, too. An excellent source of additional nonfiction material on this topic can be found in Dr. Philip Plait's Death from the Skies! in chapter two, "Sunburn," but the solar eruptions in this story setting are considered to be far more powerful than those described in Dr. Plait's book.

1 Synopsis of the Setting
2 Trivia
3 Daylight Fanfiction
- 3.1 External Links
- 3.2 Internal Links
4 External Links

Synopsis of the Setting

The events occur on and around Earth in the writer's chosen Dariaverse. For unknown reasons and with little warning, the Sun destabilizes and becomes highly eruptive and moderately hotter for a relatively short period of time (several decades minimum, though at the writer's option it can last up to a millennium). This has profound consequences for human civilization, to say nothing of the rest of Earth's biosphere. The disaster unfolds in logical stages over time, throwing down new challenges at a rapid pace on top of the old.

The time of the first Coronal Mass Ejection impact against Earth's magnetosphere, and the initial catastrophe that followed, is called Zero Hour.

Trivia

The shared setting of Daylight has no connection to the movie Knowing, which has a similar theme. For one thing, Daylight came out before the movie, which was released March 20, 2009, in one of those funny episodes of independent invention. The designer of Daylight has the satisfaction of knowing that the fanfiction setting is a far more accurate depiction of an actual series of superflares than Knowing presents, plus there are no aliens, codes, or silly things like that in the fanfiction setting.