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.
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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.
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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 Moore’s take of Mayor Sullivan & thugs-commissioned Wheeler report. http://bit.ly/2TfDKU # And here’s Mudflats on Mayor Sullivan [...]
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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 reply to jansonjones # @jansonjones As a BSG fan you gotta read that whiny “feminization of SF” [...]
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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."
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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.
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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."
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