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“Pushaway” published in the anthology Subversion
My story “Pushaway,” which tells the story of how my character Esti Gusev grew up in a toxic religious community on Mars, has now been published in the anthology Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm, edited by Bart Leib. Continue reading
The Daily Tweets 2011-05-26: The sun’s gone wibbly
Huh. Twitter Tools has suddenly started working again — just in time to further glorify Doctor Who, and to bid fond farewell to Spirit rover… which my character Esti Gusev will one day see in Gusev Crater (after which she … Continue reading
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged Beartooth, Doctor Who, Esti Gusev (Long Dark), Mars, Wibbly
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Building Consensus
How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.
Posted in About writing, Cold
Tagged Battle of Washita River, civility, Cold notes, collaborative decisionmaking, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), Dena'ina, good government bad government, Harming none do as you will, integrity, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Turnbull, Mars, Mars Trilogy, NaNoWriMo 2007, Pavonis Mons, Peter Kalifornsky, science fiction, selfhood, sociocracy, storymind, terraforming, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world
One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Polis
Tagged Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, C.J. Cherryh, Chris, Citizens United v. FEC, Cold notes, collective intelligence, consensus, Consensus (Cold), corporations, corporations as persons, Cyteen, Dave, democracy, good government bad government, J.R.R. Tolkien, Juneau Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson, Long Dark notes, Lord of the Rings, Mars, Middle Earth, political corruption, science fiction, sociocracy, terraforming, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-20: Enjoy your cookie
The real deal on Wheeler report commissioned by Sullivan & thugs: History has proven Begich right ( Alaska Dispatch) http://bit.ly/1wRcgG # Halcro on AGIA & Palin’s common sense re: economy: “it’s commonly known Palin doesn’t possess any.” http://bit.ly/4fmesh # Shannyn … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Halcro, Dan Sullivan, Mars, Mudflats (blog), NaNoWriMo 2009, Sarah Palin, Shannyn Moore, terraforming, writing
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