Author Archives: joshua

There’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish

June 8, 2011 – 8:17 pm

Still backlogged on actual articles, but also still agog at the wonder of the universe.

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Cassini Mission

June 2, 2011 – 4:14 pm

CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo. I’ve got some stuff I’m writing, but I’ve got this backlog of amazing things I want to show everyone. This is one of them.  It’s made out of Cassini’s photos as it flew by Saturn and some of its moons by a “space fan”. There are some parts of [...]

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Aliens Have Edges: The Storm Sailors of Relimeët

April 21, 2011 – 9:00 am

When the Contactor Temporary Reduction in Entropy arrived in orbit around Relimeët, its members found themselves in intense debate over the proper location for their elevator. The environment faced them with extreme hostility. Two stable Coriolis storms slowly orbited the equator-spanning ocean of the planet, spinning off unpredictable eddies of smaller hurricanes and ruling out [...]

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Precision

April 7, 2011 – 10:57 am

PRECISION from Andrew James Sykes on Vimeo. Produced in 48 hours by students. The Future is awesome.

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Everyone is a Person (But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Weird)

March 31, 2011 – 5:20 pm

The colony Efwehasht The subtle axial tilt and mid-habitable zone orbit of Efwehasht (“Arbor”) make for a wide, verdant temperate zone. The three smallest continents cover much of the northern zone, while the southern hemisphere is dominated by vast, rocky deserts. In the temperate zone lives a robust and varied ecosystem. Many subtle niches exist, [...]

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Jennisodes!

March 31, 2011 – 4:26 pm

Hey, I like to talk a lot! Want to hear me talk about Shock:Human Contact? Listen to the first of the two parts! Want to talk listen to me talk about Kickstarter? Listen to part two!

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Post-PAX

March 23, 2011 – 11:58 pm

[This post was sitting here, unpublished, because I was so tired when I got back from PAX that I got taken out by a cold for a week.] PAX was wonderful. Got to rock some good science fiction at the table, ran into a guy from my college RPG, sold more than I’ve ever sold [...]

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History of Science Fiction

March 10, 2011 – 12:37 pm

I’m on my way to PAX East! I hope to see you there, but if not, at least you can entertain yourself by maximizing your window size, then clicking on the mass of organs above that represent the history of fantastic fiction, starting with mythology and ending up in the realm of Kim Stanley Robinson, [...]

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Why We Explore

March 2, 2011 – 11:51 am

In an early Human Contact game, a player asked me why Academics go to the stars. The answer is this video. Another Sagan quote, this one from a rejected layout that we might yet see in a future edition of the game: As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth [...]

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First Human Contacts Roll In!

February 23, 2011 – 12:08 pm

Good news! After two weeks of technical issues, the first copies of Human Contact are in! The technical issues persist, unfortunately, so there’s not quite closure, but I have 60 copies now, should have another 200 or so next week, and another 50ish the week after that. The nature of the technical issue isn’t clear; [...]

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