Wednesday Night Icons: The GM's Perspective

Quickie note

The Copying Problem

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Nicked from NK Jemisin

Gollancz is delighted to welcome a guest blogger to the site. Lizzie Barrett, known to many as @alittlebriton and as a mover and shaker within the BFS and Fantasycon communities, has been kind enough to let us repost her words about panels, and the importance of making sure voices from every walk, genre and gender of life are heard. This opinion piece came together with a little help from her friends (as all the best things do) namely Anne C. Perry, known to the SFF world as @thefingersofgod and as the quite marvellous @pornokitsch. It’s also featuring on our blog with the blessing of the lovely people at SFX, who you can find at www.SFX.com, or @SFXmagazine.

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That said

Let's look at the list of authors Gollancz supplies to the right of the essay linked to in the previous entry.

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Two interesting links from Dynamics of Cats

As pointed out in email, more or less:

The basic idea is to look at solar models in which the young Sun was a little bit more massive, and got to its current mass through an enhanced stellar wind over the first few hundred million years.

and from DoC:

The Scientific Exoplanets Renderer (SER) is a new scientific software tool to generate photorealistic visualizations of exoplanets. It uses physical properties from exoplanets and their parent stars to generate possible scenarios for their visual appearance as seem from space. Many parameters can be adjusted based on estimates of their atmospheric and surface physics and chemistry. It includes the reconstruction of realistic atmospheric clouds motion and weather effects.