I began research in the late 1990s on a Speculative Fiction background setting that had to be a scientifically valid extrapolation. When it is eventually finished, my novel series could be classified as Mundane SF.

The requirements were that the Asteroid Settlement had to provide "Shirtsleeves" environment -- Terra-normal gravity, atmosphere, etc., and it had to be self-sustaining. It would be a home and economy for ordinary people, one of many, eventually. Other Near-Earth-Asteroid habitats in the series would have varying configurations and gravitic environments, but the main one had to be livable for you and me, not just heroes.

The Entwife's Asteroid Settlement was an MS PowerPoint presentation given at the 2006 Norwescon, based on graphics provided by a talented high-school student using the Rhino graphics package.  I announced at that time that I was opening this "universe" to anyone who wanted to write or otherwise create using it; my motivation is to spread the word that space colonization is practical in the near term and immediately necessary to provide lifeboats for the human species in case something dreadful happens to the Blue Marble we all depend on.

Probably by the time I get ready to publish, the StoryTeller's Bowl method will be practical, as described above in the text of notes I took at the 2008 Denver Worldcon. Now, I could try to clean them up even more, but on consideration decided that to do so would imply exactitude, and misrepresent their rough and hasty status. I would be happy to consider any feedback on them, if someone cares to use the form provided.

See also the video below, which came to me through a long line of anonymous emails, so my apologies to whoever originated it.  It's a bit noisy, so you probably want to hastily mute it, but skip ahead through the possibly too-long center to look at the end of the clip, and you will see a video example of the way the StoryTeller's Bowl might work.