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Category Archives: Setting
No Need to “Fall Back” on Mars
If you remembered to set your clocks last night to “fall back” for the return to standard time, then you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep this morning. ABC News makes some dubious claims in a recent article, Daylight Savings Time Ends … Continue reading
9/11 and Science Fiction
Glenn Reynolds (prompted by a post by Andrew Fox) muses on the absence of 9/11 (and by extension the War on Terror) from science fiction, which Fox speculates is a taboo subject. Carl and I started writing In the Shadow … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, future history, prognostication, terrorism
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Life Imitates Art: Moving Asteroids
There is a moment very early on in In the Shadow of Ares where Amber and her refer in passing to an asteroid, Eleanor, which for several years had been gradually nudged to an eventual orbit around Mars for future mining. … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroid, diversion, Eleanor, NEO, Renaissance Project
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Fog on Mars
This report on a newly-released analysis of data from the Phoenix lander pretty closely describes what we had in mind for the “yardang” scene…only in reverse. Continue reading
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Tagged diamond dust, fog, haze, ice, In the Shadow of Ares, lander, Mars, Phoenix, water, yardang
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Mars on Iceland
I was too busy with other projects this weekend to scan in the aforementioned concept sketches, but I’ll try again to get to them this week. In the meantime, here’s another picture of Iceland as Mars…but for the green and … Continue reading
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Tagged living on mars, mars base, mars colony
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Concept Art
While rooting around in a desk drawer this evening, I came across a bunch of sketches of our early concepts from 2002-2003 for several locations and bits of hardware for In the Shadow of Ares. It’s surprising how similar most … Continue reading
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Tagged Concepts, In, living on mars, mars base, mars colony
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