My novel now has a free audio version. Chapter 1, "The Singularity Descends": https://t.co/iDaX3aTDcQ — hard sci-fi set in China's Qinling Mountains, where a rift in reality opens.
When I write hard sci-fi, I start from real physics and then ask "what if?" One seed for my book: semi-Dirac materials, where particles act massless in one direction but not the other. Real research, fictional consequences.
I wrote a short hard sci-fi novel: a surveyor in China's Qinling Mountains finds a rift in reality, and on the other side are civilizations that treat reality as source code. *Alien Dimensions: The Shepherd's Wasteland*. Free opening excerpt: https://t.co/cCaSjC1koy
"What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about LOOKING good, while DOING evil. Fuck them."
-@elonmusk at NYT Dealbook Summit
The stunning scale of a moose.
Alces alces, known as moose in North America and elk in other regions of the world, can reach a height of 2.3 m (7ft 6") from hoof to shoulder.
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