{"id":1409,"date":"2010-03-16T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2010-03-16T23:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:46:31","slug":"human-contactalone-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/human-contactalone-pre-order","title":{"rendered":"Human Contact:Alone Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SHCA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1410 \" title=\"Shock:Human Contact Alone\" src=\"http:\/\/joshuanewmandesign.com\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SHCA-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front cover of Human Contact: Alone. That&#39;s the starship coming back to pick up the envoys, but after nine years, I bet those people reeeeally want to get off that ship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, Malcolm, Courtny, Rob, and Soren all got me to thinkin&#8217;. <a title=\"I hope they can hitchhike back!\" href=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/forum\/shockhuman-contact\/shc-some-initial-questions-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\">What happens when a starship <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> land?<\/a> The answer is, they do a careful insertion of a small team of emissaries to make it so they <em>can<\/em> land when they loop back around in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The groundwork they have to lay is social, but it can take many forms. They might have to <strong>win a war, start a religion<\/strong>, or <strong>change the colony&#8217;s socioeconomic system<\/strong>. In seven years. Because when those Academics finally get into orbit after their now <em>nine year<\/em> journey, there&#8217;s no force in the universe that could keep them off the surface.<\/p>\n<p>To help pay for the print run, <strong>I&#8217;m taking pre-orders<\/strong>! Paypal $10 +$4 s&amp;h in the US or $6 elsewhere to orders@glyphpress.com and put &#8220;Human Contact:Alone&#8221; in the subject line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Malcolm, Courtny, Rob, and Soren all got me to thinkin&#8217;. What happens when a starship can&#8217;t land? The answer is, they do a careful insertion of a small team of emissaries to make it so they can land when they loop back around in seven years. The groundwork they have to lay is social, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2010\/human-contactalone-pre-order\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Human Contact:Alone Pre-Order&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,19],"tags":[26,40],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-contact","category-publishing","category-shock","tag-alone","tag-human-contact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}