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A Science Fictional Take on Being There
centauri-dreams.org - 1/27/2009
A Science Fictional Take on Being There
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If you’re not a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (still commonly known as the SFWA from the days before the ‘fantasy’ bit was added), you may not see the group’s regular bulletin. That would be understandable, given that although it can be ...

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Now we're talking.
Posthuman Blues — A Science Fictional Take on Being There In this era of space-based observatories like CoRoT and (soon) Kepler, most Centauri Dreams readers would likely agree that exoplanetary life may be detected from nearby space (at least with next generation tools), but what gets the attention is Metzger's riff on how a truly advanced alien culture might view us. No need to land on the White House lawn -- why not stay invisible, experiencing our Earth through billions of intelligent 'motes' sent by exploration craft the size of dust grains. One mote could dock ...

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SF Signal — ... Real Science @ Centauri Dreams: A Science Fictional Take on Being There, responds to Robert Metzger's State of the Art science column in the SFWA Bulletin: "Would a species capable of star travel actually need to make the journey, given the advances in technology that would surely make it possible to learn more and more about exoplanets from its own star system?" ...

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