Tag Archives: terraforming

Building Consensus

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 10 February 2010

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, No Way Way | Also 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, Turnbull (Cold), Ursula K. Leguin, Wikipedia, worldbuilding, writing | 3 Comments

Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 6 February 2010

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 | Also 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, Tom Anderson, VECO, worldbuilding, writing | 2 Comments

The Daily Tweets, 2009-11-20: Enjoy your cookie

By Mel | Published: Friday, 20 November 2009

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 Moore’s take of Mayor Sullivan & thugs-commissioned Wheeler report. http://bit.ly/2TfDKU # And here’s Mudflats on Mayor Sullivan [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Andrew Halcro, Dan Sullivan, Mars, Mudflats (blog), NaNoWriMo 2009, Sarah Palin, Shannyn Moore, writing | Leave a comment

The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-13: Your spearhead is wilting

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Whiny “men’s rights” activists whining about the ‘feminization of SF” Your spearhead is wilting! http://bit.ly/4yddsU # @jansonjones Dollhouse getting lotsa addt’l viewing on DVR & Hulu. Rewatched all 3-so-far Season 2 eps on Hulu last night w/ my friend. in reply to jansonjones # @jansonjones As a BSG fan you gotta read that whiny “feminization of SF” [...]

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Also tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Dollhouse (TV), science fiction, Sean Hannity, TV | Leave a comment

Terraforming notes

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 3 October 2007

A few notes about what terraforming is. A terraforming project on an extrasolar planet is the context of my SF novel-in-progress "Cold."

Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo | Also tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, research for writing, science fiction, writing | Leave a comment

About “Cold”

By Mel | Published: Monday, 1 October 2007

"Cold," my NaNoWriMo project for 2007, will be a science fiction novel featuring two young women who live on a planet in the late stages of terraformation.

Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo | Also tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, science fiction, writing | 4 Comments