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Frontier – new art, old art
Would really like the time and energy to get life paths done this month. Depends on life and everything. I did get some new art commissioned.
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Frontier – thinking while watching The Expanse
I've just started a binge of The Expanse TV series and if I enjoy it, I'll hit the book series. There are things I really like about The Expanse. They…
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About Frontier and Representation
When I conceived Frontier it wasn't the way it is now. There was a little collaboration from others and everyone had their own idea what it would become. For one…
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Frontier: The Snakes of Rist images
The post "The Snakes of Rist" has been updated with some art. To give a feel for the Aliens. Pop there and have a look.
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Explorers: Ten Experts
Human Unity has build dozens of these craft; their primary purpose to map the wormholes and document everything they encounter. Because they may be out of touch with Earth for…
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Looking at a black hole…..
if a black hole passed in front of a mirror, what would its reflection look like? pic.twitter.com/Ets4JRNwp9
— Matt Henderson (@matthen2) May 22, 2020
This is the sort of result that we got from Interstellar (with science from Kip Thorne) and validated by Katie Bouman in her algorithm to piece together collected data from a black hole and see what it looked like.
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Is there life out there?
CETI We present a cosmic perspective on the search for life and examine the likely number of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent civilizations (CETI) in our Galaxy by utilizing the latest astrophysical…
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Frontier….2020: progress, updates and the future
I’ve begun working on Frontier again, firstly through a collaboration with a young Kenyan artist to produce some concept pieces for the book. It’s really helping to crystallise some of the thoughts but I definitely need to lock down the dates for things a lot more to keep them in my head. Is it 500 years in the future or 200? Erg.
I present, for your amusement, some sample images.
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Current work…writing scripts
For the last few months, on top of travelling and attending a bazillion courses, I've been writing. I've written five short scripts in the world of THE 23RD LETTER. I've…
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Gliese 581
Of course, this is not the first time we have seen Gliese 581 (HO Librae). In 2214, we'll send a Seedship.
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Frontier: A Changed Man
Kibwe had returned home a changed man. Kibwe had always wanted to be a pilot. From an early age he made airfoils from balsa and drove his parents to distraction…
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The Final Frontier. No, really.
Ian Sales writes on his blog: And sometimes those imaginations run a little too free. A lot of science fiction is set in outer space, or on worlds which orbit…
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Frontier fiction: The Emotion Elective
AMARA would always marvel at the human capacity for self-deception; the ability to believe something even though the facts were plentiful for the contrary, even though nothing but faith supported…
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Frontier: Foreword, History of Mbaye Schools, page 23
[I am taking part in a weekly writing task with some friends. The first seed for this assignment was the opening line from Dune by Frank Herbert: "A beginning is…
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Frontier: Conquest Weapons
The common weapon within the Conquest Society is the 'dumb' slugthrower. A Chemical Propellent Projectile Weapon (extremely recognisable as a 'gun') uses a chemical explosion to create gases which propel…
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Frontier: Terror Weapons
While Human Unity uses weapons which would enthral the 21st Century warlord, from shipboard weapons to intelligent bullets, the greatest and most terrible weapon is the Master Expert, artificial intelligences…
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Frontier: The Dichotomy of Fulfillment
In an earlier post, I discussed two examples of Citizenship, reproduced here for your convenience: Chera Nyumba was born in a small village in Africa, in an area formerly known…
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Frontier ‘look and feel’
More of a precis to get the feel across. There are a few themes that I am exploring here. And I'm not being preachy about it. Western Europe is devastated…
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Frontier summaries
Summary: The basic setting assumes that players are highly skilled, highly motivated members of the Explorer division of Human Unity, a 'federation'-alike government. Their job is to make contact, explore…
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Frontier: History of the Future
In the first half of the twentieth century, humanity discovered, developed and weaponised nuclear fission. Through a small amount of vision and a large amount of luck, humanity managed to…