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Tag Archives: research for writing
Space travel can mess up your digestion
In which I channel my character Esti Gusev — or at least I channeled something. I.e., sometimes the hazards of space travel can come right down to Earth. (A la Neil F. Comin’s book The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide). Continue reading
Writing life
A writer’s progress report: reading up for the design of Consensus in Cold & Long Dark; work on “Trading Shirts”; revision of “Itch” from Finer. Continue reading
Taking life support for granted
Pina Chomko: s a story character in my novel-in-progress Cold. She’s not like us: she grew up in outer space. Her dream: to take for granted all the life support services that nature provides for free — just like us. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, Pina Chomko (Cold), research for writing, science fiction, writing
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Biospherics
More on my evolving knowledge about closed ecological life support systems (CELSS) for use in my novels-in-progress projects Long Dark & Cold: biospherics is a handy new term for what it’s really all about. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged biospherics, CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, research for writing, science fiction, writing
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My October reading list
What I’m reading, or at least looking at, in the rundown to NaNoWriMo 2009: space exploration, growing food in space, consensus government, & more. I’ll be writing Long Dark, about the people making the long journey between the stars to colonize another solar system. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, research for writing, science fiction, writing
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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space
Research notes on closed ecosystems in outer space, for “Long Dark,” a story I’m trying to write in the same story universe as my 2007 NaNoWriMo “novel” Cold. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Short fiction
Tagged CELSS, Cold notes, Long Dark notes, NaNoWriMo 2009, research for writing, science fiction, writing
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Terraforming notes
A few notes about what terraforming is. A terraforming project on an extrasolar planet is the context of my SF novel-in-progress “Cold.” Continue reading
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Tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, research for writing, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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