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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-03-06 09:48 pm
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2016-03-06 09:48 pm
This will end well
The White House Wants To Use Science Fiction To Settle The Solar System
I expect this will be even more transformative than SIGMA.
This fits with a growing trend within the science fiction community itself - recently released books such as The Martian by Andy Weir, Seveneves by Neil Stephenson and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson are each deeply focused on optimistic futures, rather than dystopian ones.
Huh. Not how I would describe the last two books.
I expect this will be even more transformative than SIGMA.
This fits with a growing trend within the science fiction community itself - recently released books such as The Martian by Andy Weir, Seveneves by Neil Stephenson and Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson are each deeply focused on optimistic futures, rather than dystopian ones.
Huh. Not how I would describe the last two books.
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This is your chance to write the 21st-century version of "The Martian Way," perhaps taking as inspiration the events of the Lobos Islands crisis of 1852, in which Peru and the United States came near to armed conflict over guano.