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Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Looking Backward, a novel about the future written in 1880s by Ed Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward Looking Backward on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Backward-2000-Edward-Bellamy/dp/B0B1C94PQ9/ Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Akiya prefers feats of intelligence but that gets him no respect from his peers. He get's into more trouble when he accidentally disrupts his tribe's corner-on-the-market of hauling goods due to his invention using levers, which becomes so popular that the neighboring tribes no longer require hauling services. To make matter worse, music television marketeers from the future are meddl

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Tout Caveman Funk

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Ecumenopolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis Issac Author video about Ecumenopolises: EcumenopolisesYouTube · Isaac Arthur37 minutes, 6 secondsJul 7, 2016 Tout Caveman Funk If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Ecumenopolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis Issac Author video about Ecumenopolises: EcumenopolisesYouTube · Isaac Arthur37 minutes, 6 secondsJul 7, 2016 Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/

Buy The 9TH COLONY from Colin Curtis's website: http://colincurtis15.com Colin Curtis's very engrossing video trailer for his novel THE 9TH COLONY: https://youtu.be/MUEwE08ZsvQ

Buy The 9TH COLONY from Colin Curtis's website: http://colincurtis15.com Colin Curtis's very engrossing video trailer for his novel THE 9TH COLONY: https://youtu.be/MUEwE08ZsvQ 

Buy The 9TH COLONY from Colin Curtis's website: http://colincurtis15.com Colin Curtis's very engrossing video trailer for his novel THE 9TH COLONY: https://youtu.be/MUEwE08ZsvQ 

Colin Curtis's website: http://colincurtis15.com Colin Curtis's very engrossing video trailer for his novel THE 9TH COLONY: https://youtu.be/MUEwE08ZsvQ 

Colin Curtis's website: http://colincurtis15.com Colin Curtis's very engrossing video trailer for his novel THE 9TH COLONY: https://youtu.be/MUEwE08ZsvQ  Colin is also having it created into a comic book and here are some of the characters he has from the book: 

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Coal and natural gas give way as renewable power generation grows in Texas: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/texas-solar-growth-2023-17769103.php Solar Power Is Bailing Texas Out This Summer : https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/renewable-energy-texas-grid-heat-wave/ A year after Texas cold spell, study shows renewable energy could help prevent blackouts : https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/20/texas-energy-winter-renewable-jacobson-dessler-rogan/ Texas Officials Blame Renewables for Heatwave Blackout Risk. Experts Say That’s Misleading (Remember, Texas officials are largely from the party that doesn't believe in science) : https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15072022/texas-officials-blame-renewables-for-heatwave-blackout-risk-experts-say-thats-misleading/ Support SciFi Thoughts by using the following referral/affiliate links: Are you interested in Tesla solar panels or solar roof? Use this link: https://ts.la/lance3561

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