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Hurray for the Elements of Change

June 1st 2008 at 12:17 pm

I’m pleased with the price of gas.  Change is already happening.  Our Mayor came back from a climate conference where one speaker said the measured particulates in the air are already slightly lower since gas went up.  He said people cheered.  Elementary economics:  Price changes behavior.
Global warming warning signs are coming faster and harder than [...]

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Musing on Alan Greenspan’s book, The Age of Turbulence

October 10th 2007 at 6:25 pm

Alan Greenspan has much in common with many of my favorite classic science fiction writers. Heinlein, Niven, and others claim Libertarian leanings, and so does Greenspan. They are also all pretty smart people that really want to understand the world.
Greenspan’s book is pretty close to a key about how some parts of the [...]

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A Little Follow Up

September 15th 2007 at 8:13 am

From my last few blogs …
From the September 11th vigil, and relating to future vigils…the Citizens on the Lake for Peace website. Nicely done.
Second…I really think good engineers might save the world some day. Part of that could be because my dad is one, and he saved me a few times…but aside from [...]

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Thoughts from the night after

September 12th 2007 at 9:20 pm

So I did go to the vigil last night. It felt like it made September 11 meaningful.
I even took the microphone once, and said something about how we had squandered a great chance for world peace in the year after 9/11 by choosing bombs instead of care packages and education, by choosing guns instead [...]

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Thoughts from the night before

September 10th 2007 at 9:20 pm

Six years ago tomorrow my alarm clock, set to NPR news, delivered me into a waking nightmare.
Sometimes I am still convinced it must be a bad dream - its hard to believe we squandered the outpouring of world support, mired ourselves in a pointless war when we should have given the Middle East [...]

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Worth Watching

August 24th 2007 at 5:30 am

Figures that as soon as I mention how I almost never watch TV (so I have time to write), I’d get caught up in a show. I took four hours out of my life to watch “God’s Warrior’s” on CNN, an excellent bit of investigative reporting by Christiane Amanpour. The series was three [...]

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Reading Recommendation: Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason”

July 23rd 2007 at 7:48 pm

I just finished listening to this book on Audio CD on my iPod. There are a lot of messages in it, some delivered in a more balanced way than others. But the most important topic is one I often talk about when I give keynote speeches: the conversation about the future is [...]

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Books

Reading the Wind by Brenda Cooper

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"Brenda Cooper's newest novel is a feast of character and concept. She depicts the devastation of war on microcosmic and macrocosmic levels, and even more so, the driving motives of young men and women caught in deadly conflict. Cooper is a master explorer of the interaction of society and individuals. She probes the psychology of her genetically enhanced characters with both rare depth and fidelity to scientific plausibility. Moral conundrums drive the plot in this unforgettable narrative. Don't miss this compelling work by a major new talent." - Mary A. Turzillo, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl.

"Brenda Cooper tells a tale of a powerful brother and sister in a fight for their lives, offering insights along the way into the nature of courage and the hunger for community that burns in every human being. This is a lively book, full of colorful images and a memorable cast of human and animal characters, a worthy successor to The Silver Ship and the Sea." - Louise Marley

Available in July, 2008, from Tor Books.

The Silver Ship and the Sea by Brenda Cooper

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"The first solo novel by Larry Niven's Building Harlequin's Moon (2005) coauthor portrays the thoroughly convincing human colonial society on Fremont, a dangerous planet rife with vicious predators, frequent earthquakes, and falling meteors....Distinctive characterizations, well-limned interrelationships, and the vividly realized Fremont contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice." - Sally Estes, Copyright American Library Association.

Mass Market Paperback, July 2008.
Included by Booklist as a "Best Adult Book for Young Adults."

Building Harlequin's Moon by Brenda Cooper and Larry Niven

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"Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcome Cooper's well-written tale of a 60,000 year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by the social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups." - Publisher's Weekly

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