• EmilyBlips

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  Awesome essay. I agree (?) that it is completely overwhelming, heh.

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Links for 8th December 2008
Velcro City Tourist Board — ... spreads like the plague "Like an influenza outbreak, happiness - and misery too - spread through social networks, affecting people through three degrees of separation. For instance, a happy friend of a friend of a friend increases the chances of personal happiness by about 6%… " WTF? Tagged with: science • happiness • sociology • viral • emotion • noosphere • The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer "… that’s the burden of ...

The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer - Jason Stoddard …
Planet-x.com.au — The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer - It’s no coincidence that many of the people who wrote science fiction in the “Golden Age” were engineers, technicians, or scientists. More here: The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer - Jason Stoddard …

True or False? Scientific Research is a Requirement to Write Believable Science Fiction
SF Signal — "To write fully believable, near future science fiction today, you almost need to be voracious antisocial polymath, deeply conversant in half a dozen technical fields, as well as familiar with ongoing social, economic, and environmental change." So says Jason Stoddard when he talks about The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer. He makes an interesting point. If science fiction is all about science, then only a thorough understanding of science, or at least the particular science around which the story revolves, will result in a ...

December 10, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Name Sources and Place Name Generators. K. Tempest Bradford on The Plight of the Clueless Writer. Here's an article on The State of Horror in North Carolina. Features quotes from John Parker, Alexandra Sokoloff, John Kenneth Muir, and Richard Dansky. Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year: Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Whee! Book View Cafe stories are now available at Anthology Builder. Jason Stoddard on The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer. SF Signal and Jeremiah Tolbert share ...

How much science does a science fiction writer need?
Futurismic — ... Not just scientific knowledge, but technological, economical, social, geopolitical… you need the lot to be able to write believable near-future science fiction. Or so says the latest missive from Jason Stoddard discussing the burden of the modern science fiction writer: ...

Empire in Links and Gold
Torque Control — ... other things. At Bookslut, meanwhile, Paul Kincaid considers Steven Millhauser and Geoffrey H Goodwin interviews Christopher Barzak Abigail Nussbaum on Nation by Terry Pratchett Kim Newman on The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko David Hines on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen tackles another poor review. Jason Stoddard on The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer; Jeremiah Tolbert’s response ...