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April 10, 2015
A Way With Worlds: God, Darwin, History
Many, many years ago, I noticed American politics often boiled down to blaming things on God, Darwin, Or History. Later it came to me that, in some ways, worldbuilders did this as well. These arethree crutches we use rather poorly in our worldbuilding. Three excuses that let us hand-wave good …
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April 6, 2015
Geek Culture: Action, Reaction, And Return
I’ve previously talked about geek evangelism – namely I missed it. It seems that the internet had given us a chance to seal ourselves off in echo chambers, and that has affected geek culture and culture in general. People we’re more “building up” than “reaching out,” and many now built …
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April 4, 2015
Crossroads Alpha Podcast!
Over at Crossroads Alpha, the gang has started doing a regular podcast. It’s a “deep dive” on various subjects. In this case the first episode is about Auterism and Individual Vision. I’m biased, but I was pretty happy with the depth of conversation, from Wendy And Richard Pini to great …
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April 3, 2015
Way With World: Race – The Trap Of Positive Stereotypes
(Way With Worlds is a weekly column on the art of worldbuilding published at Seventh Sanctum, Muse Hack, and Ongoing Worlds) So last column I talked about stereotypes in creating races. Mostly it was: Don’t do it. Be sure not to mix up culture versus racial/species traits. Really, don’t do …
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March 30, 2015
Geekdom And The Wars Of Infinte Freedom
I want to follow up on my post about how I missed Geek Evangelism. I had stated that I frankly missed the passionate outreach, even when it was annoying, as it had been replaced with stark territoriality. What, I wondered, had happened? My conclusion was basically too many geeks had …
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March 27, 2015
Look For AlternaTEAS!
Hey Gang, just heard that someone is looking for writers – for something rather unusual! AlternaTEAS is a Steampunk/Urban Fantasy anthology published by Sky Warrior Books. The reading period is from March 1, 2015 to July 31st, 2015. The anthology will include stories (from between 5,000-7,500 words — please query …
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Way With Worlds: Race – Race And Culture
And welcome to the column with Most Controversial Sounding Title yet. Which, much like my columns on sex, is probably going to be far more pedestrian than expected. Which is good in this case. What we’re going to talk about here is our races (in this case species) and races …
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March 24, 2015
An Interview With Claire Of Kirkland Geek Gala
The Kirkland Geek Gala is an organization that focuses on geeks giving back to their community and helping children. From diners to auctions, they raise funds for organizations like Extra Life that benefit local charities. So let’s meet one of the event organizers, Claire! 1) Thanks Claire. So give us …
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March 23, 2015
Missing The Missionary
I miss Evangelical Geekery. Oh not geeks that are Evangelical Christians. I miss the geek who preaches about this great comic or great program. I miss the person convinced thisanime will turn you into an anime fan and it’ll be giant robots for all. I miss people who wanted to …
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March 20, 2015
Way With Worlds: Race – Adaptable Is It
(Way With Worlds is a weekly column on the art of worldbuilding published at Seventh Sanctum, Muse Hack, and Ongoing Worlds) Sentient races (which I’m adapting in the “species” sense) are almost certainly going to be very adaptable. They are going to learn, change, grow, alter, and evolve – even …
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