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June 26, 2018
Some brief analytical thoughts about that Westworld Season 2 finale
Disclaimer: Spoilers. Please don't read unless you've seen the Westworld Season 2 finale. I tackle my understanding (or lack thereof) about the underlying themes and inconsistencies of Season 2 of Westworld.
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June 22, 2018
2054 and Future Visions: Earning the Amazon bestseller tag with two new anthologies
That's our anthology, 2054, right at the top. Bestseller, in the company of Patrice Fitzgerald, Hugh Howey, Neil Gaiman and Harlan Ellison. #1 on the entire Amazon.com store. My part of 2054 was Deep Ocean Blues - the first of four stories you come across after the brilliant foreword by Dr. Samuel Peralta. I'd earned the orange tag.
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June 4, 2018
Civilization: resilience
A wonderful writers’ group I’m part of recently started discussing civilization. There were many sub-discussions, but one thing struck my interest: someone pointed out that our civilization, unlike any that has gone before is global, networked across the entire planet. And thus, how it might fall cannot be predicted from studying past empires, which were just isolated pockets without the network effects.
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Empires that bounce back
A wonderful writers’ group I’m part of recently started discussing civilization. There were many sub-discussions, but one thing struck my interest: someone pointed out that our civilization, unlike any that has gone before is global, networked across the entire planet. And thus, how it might fall cannot be predicted from studying past empires, which were…
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June 1, 2018
The May End Update! Featuring GDPR and more.
First, a GDPR update (we’re required to do this). If you want to understand what I do with your data (like this email, hop over to http://yudhanjaya.com/privacy-policy/. If anything in there makes you uncomfortable, you can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe link in the email footer. I hope you stay, of course. I’ve…
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May 6, 2018
The Technology of the Commonwealth Empires
One of the key challenges of designing the alternate-reality world of the Commonwealth Empires is getting the technologies of the world right. When I started writing, I knew a few things about this alternate British Empire. One, they never went through the first world war as we know it. The first world war led to enormous advances…
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April 27, 2018
The Infinity War Update
Dread it...run from it...but you can't deny it. Infinity War is one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen, and in Thanos it creates a villain so humanized I actually found myself rooting for him.
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April 15, 2018
Breaking into scifi: Amazon, yay or nay?
In which I disagree with Robert J Sawyer about publishing.
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April 6, 2018
The JT Lawrence interview: From Joburg with dystopia
I am a born and bred Johannesburg girl; I bloomed in the city of gold, she said when I asked her for an introduction to herself. Think pavement weed, not flower. JT Lawrence, South African science fiction writer extraordinaire, stops by to talk about her writing, her process, and how she got here.
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April 5, 2018
April 6, 2018: Depression, dying gods, projects in the air
March was a bad month for the writing. Many things happened, not the least of which was Cambridge Analytica and that political social media fiasco – we’re still seeing ripple effects of the weaponization of Facebook and Twitter. But I think the worst that happened to me was being stuck in a curious state of…
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