Category: Futurism
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To the Stars!
For decades now, in space advocacy circles, there’s been a running joke: “How do we make porn in space?” It’s not prurience, it’s economics. What made VCRs and DVD players popular, and spawned the whole cassette/disk rental industry — which eventually included Netflix? Sure, Disney movies played their part, but the real bucks were in…
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EYES ONLY: The Ishtar Deception
I just submitted the manuscript for my next novel, The Ishtar Deception. My elevator-pitch description of the book is “a James Bond novel set in the year 10,000.” Writing it was fun, and I hope reading it will be, too. So, as a reward to everyone for being patient while I let the blog languish…
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Because Everything’s Better With Pirates
One reason I’ve been a little remiss about blogging on my own site recently is that I was composing a long piece about possible forms of future crime in space for the Center for the Study of Space Crime, Piracy, and Governance, the coolest think tank ever devised. My guest post for their blog is…
