Aug. 14th, 2007

jeffreyab: (Lightning)
Bruce Sterling said:

"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."

Charles Stross used this in his essay "The High Frontier Redux" which examined the high economic costs and complex physical problems with moving out into space.

In this essay http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007092.html Karl Schroeder explains how the Mars settlement models can be used to lessen our ecological impact on this planet Earth.

Think about one example that deserts are an obvious place to build cities with vertical farms because it leave more arable land for agriculture or rewilding http://www.worldchanging.com/local/canada/archives/006936.html.
jeffreyab: (The Librarian)
World Fantasy Nominees Named

So how many of these works has anybody read?

Nominees have been announced for this year's World Fantasy Awards, which are presented annually for works of fantasy art and literature. Winners will be announced at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention, Nov. 1-4, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. A complete list of nominees follows.

Novel: Lisey's Story by Stephen King, The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente, Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe

Novella: "Botch Town" by Jeffrey Ford, "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train" by Kim Newman, "Dark Harvest" by Norman Partridge, "Map of Dreams" by M. Rickert, "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" by Ysabeau S. Wilce

Short Fiction: "The Way He Does It" by Jeffrey Ford, "Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert, "A Siege of Cranes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum, "Another Word for Map Is Faith" by Christopher Rowe, "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)" by Geoff Ryman

Anthology: Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, Scott A. Cupp and Joe R. Lansdale, eds.; Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, eds.; Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed.; Twenty Epics, David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi, eds.; Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed.

Collection: The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke, The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford, American Morons by Glen Hirshberg, Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan, Map of Dreams by M. Rickert

Artist: Jon Foster, Edward Miller, John Picacio, Shaun Tan, Jill Thompson

Special Award, Professional: Ellen Asher, Mark Finn, Deanna Hoak, Greg Ketter, Leonard S. Marcus

Special Award, Non-Professional: Leslie Howle, Leo Grin, Susan Marie Groppi, John Klima, Gary K. Wolfe —John Joseph Adams

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