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Tag Archives: terraforming
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged Andrew Halcro, Dan Sullivan, Mars, Mudflats (blog), NaNoWriMo 2009, Sarah Palin, Shannyn Moore, terraforming, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-10-13: Your spearhead is wilting
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 … Continue reading
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Dollhouse (TV), science fiction, Sean Hannity, terraforming, TV
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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
Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, research for writing, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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About "Cold"
“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. Continue reading
Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, NaNoWriMo 2007, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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NaNoWriMo 2007: What I'm gonna write & how I'm gonna write it (the origin of "Cold")
On a cold-arse night in 2005 the question came into my head: “What does cold feel like?” Thus was born the science fiction novel-in-progress “Cold.” Continue reading
Posted in Cold, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold notes, lgbtq, NaNoWriMo 2007, science fiction, terraforming, writing
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