kazarnowicz

kazarnowicz, 7 months ago to random

Tip for sci-fi authors:

If you're interested in academic discourse regarding interstellar travel, you should check out the I4S quarterly newsletter. It's free, and the digest is really worth checking out.

Their summary of the upcoming paper “Development of a Model Framework for Examining Language and Cultural Issues in Human Starfaring Civilizations” was really thought-provoking.

"Should we Colonize (Interstellar) Space?" too!

https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IRG23-The-Summaries-Principium43-2311270915opt.pdf

#scifi #WritingTips #WritingCommunity

kazarnowicz, 7 months ago to random

I sometimes think about the existential dread civilization in the far future of the Milky Way will feel when peering into deep space.

There will be a handful of other galaxies (those that we are gravitationally bound with) in the void - beyond that, there will only be darkness since the expansion of space will be such that no light from the rest of the universe can reach us.

What stories will they spin about their lonely island of matter and light in an otherwise dark void?

#scifi #cosmology

kazarnowicz, 7 months ago to random

“Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson has me thinking about the evolution of consciousness, and the ways biology facilitates it. It makes me even more certain that consciousness is not emergent, but fundamental to the universe.

I realize that the main thesis I have in my books is that "the flesh is not a prison, it is training wheels”. Biology can obviously be overridden by a sufficiently developed mind (the Marshmallow test is a concrete example).

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#consciousness #scifi