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Total Sortition, Algocratic Democracy, and National Leviathans
Total Sortition, Algocratic Democracy, and National Leviathans One issue I’ve been considering for a while is the future of governance, and how politics could be shaped by new, transhuman technologies. I think that there are some interesting options there that could improve democracy, while destroying most of its conventional institutions. — read more
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Nonfiction in Denial
Some fiction really feels like nonfiction, and I think that this is actually something of an up-and-coming phenomenon at the moment. Personally, alternate history is a little bit of a guilty pleasure of mine, and I think that it scratches that same itch, but why? — read more
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Alternate Time
One thing that I have been contemplating is the way that I think about time. I think I’ve gotten too complacent with how I divide it, and I think I can do better. — read more
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Genre in Denial
Genre in Denial I read a fair bit, and recently I figured it would be good for me to branch out a little. I want to become a better writer, and everyone tells me that literary fiction is focused on the quality of writing. So I’ve been reading literary fiction. — read more
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3x12Tomorrows
I recently read three Twelve Tomorrows anthologies from MIT tech review, which was a bit of trip down memory lane, and a trip back in time. I’d like to talk about them. — read more
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Blood Moon – A Short Story
All that I can hear is the last quiet pops of the embers of my dying fire, the rustling of the wind through the tall grass, the quiet movements of small animals in the underbrush, and my own breathing. — read more
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Partitioning the High Frontier
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty was a landmark international treaty forbidding nations from claiming territory in space, using space for war, or basing nuclear weapons in space. It has subsequently frustrated many science fiction authors and space nerds, but I believe that it might actually lead to a more interesting future history. — read more
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Art of the Future
One problem I’ve been thinking about recently is how to handle the art of the future. I don’t think it’s done well. How can it be done better? Imagine that you’re an art historian in the year 1900. Can you predict the art of today? Certainly, if you were to take such a person, and… — read more
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The Limits of Language
For a while now, I have been thinking about the way that I write. This is mostly because I think I am a mediocre writer, and I would like to be a better one. One interesting dimension of this is that people write in ways that are mechanically different. People who paid attention during English… — read more
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5 Haikus on an Alien Planet
Hazy moons shine down On our rockets and rovers. New life–a new place. — read more
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