War is coming!
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It's genuinely amazing that our one party state has an un-auditable post election process that takes weeks where they tell us vote numbers that are oddly convenient for them and we just accept it
There are 18 year olds taking out $170,000 debt to get a business degree from Ohio State and all of the adults involved should be shot from a cannon into the sun.
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My understanding is that Red State Earth might come out around 11 months from today, and it's not impossible that RSM could be reissued in paperback around the same time.
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The original plan was:
1. Red State Earth prequel (WWIII in Texas)
2. Red State Mars
3. Red State sequel ... IDK, RS asteroids?
So then I outlined Red State Earth with
Act 2-A: the Amorillo War
Act 2-B: War in China, cartels, return to orbit
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If RSM sells well, and the economics make sense, I'd love nothing more than to bring that Atkins, Newcastles, Mackenzies and Lopezes to the asteroid belt and beyond !
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this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
Are you, as a reader of science fiction, bereft of hope of ever finding a science fiction novel with actual science in it? Has the number of dragons in the science fiction and fantasy aisle at the local bookstore driven you to despair of ever seeing a pressure suit on a book cover again? Do you miss novels of heroic men and women conquering planets at great peril to themselves?
Despair no more. Travis J. I. Corcoran (@morlockp) has brought orbital mechanics, atomic power, Martian colonies, geothermal dynamics, and other hard sciences back into science fiction in his Red State Mars. Magik and dragons be damned.
Corcoran's Red State Mars brings those sciences together and more, all tied with together in a rousing good tale with real heroes and villains.
If you miss the likes Asimov, Drake, and Heinlein, you should definitely order a copy today. You won't regret it.
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"They're made out of weights."
"Weights?"
"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."
"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"
"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"
War Games was released on this very day in 1983.
I was a wee little lad then and had just gotten my C64 a few months earlier. Watching War Games at the cinema was beyond epic - nerd chills through the roof. I think every boy back then wanted to be Matthew Broderick. A cool "hacker" with a hot girlfriend? Any day man, any day!
We later got the movie on VHS, and much later I bought the DVD, which I still watch once in a while. My 15-year-old nephew watched it with me a few months ago. Even though the tech and hardware are obviously stupendously outdated now, the overall theme still holds up - as confirmed by my nephew's verdict afterward.
War Games was absolute 80s gold. If you've watched it, you know. If you haven't... boy are you in for a treat, do it.
Just finished 1 of 4 chapters that I've outlined in the new 'Amarillo' thread.
Insanely high ROI on this new mini-thread - fleshes out the antagonists exceedingly well, motivates them as sympathetic-but-flawed, makes Act 3 resolution just 🤌perfect.
@ark_press 9/
Thank you!
Very excited to bring the full Red State story to readers. The tale spans almost every single genre I love: post apocalypse, western, engineering procedural, mil-sf, political / constitutional thriller ( @JohnBarnesSF ), return to space.
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Thrilled to announce that Red State Earth ( Lonesome Dove meets Lucifer's Hammer meets The Road Warrior meets Neuromancer ) is under contract with @ark_press !
Ark will be bringing the complete three book Red State series to shelves over the next 1-2 years