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Marketing is culture change (even if the product is your writing)

Just write the next book... sorta.

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What's going on with Fermi's paradox?

How this physicist's harmless question opened the gates for an existential crisis of cosmic proportions

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The Killing Star and other tales of ecological doom

Strike first, strike hard, no mercy. John Kreese got nothing on these aliens.

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Why Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip will be the end of you

Think twice before getting excited about this ambitious project to rebuild human beings in the image of machines

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How this weird Danish philosopher supercharged his writing brand by using pen names

There's good business reasons besides the privacy paranoia

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Is Disney's Star Wars Hotel a ripoff or a marketing masterclass for writers?

Shameless pandering it might be... but the keen-eyed will get a free education in selling to a hungry niche

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Living around a rogue black hole

Interstellar menace or life-giving gardens for space travelers?

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Do you "trust scientists"?

You're supposed to trust "The Science"... but what is that and what makes it an authority?

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Is "who are you?" the ultimate sci-fi question?

You find yourself at the bottom of a shocking number of remarkable science fiction stories

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Hard science fiction is more philosophy than science

RP continues to flog this horse well into rigor mortis

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Is your bug-eyed space-monster a person?

Space opera assumes that aliens will be people, but maybe that's not what intelligence looks like

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All manned spaceflight is fantasy so you may as well own that

There's no realistic way to send human beings to live on other planets... but that doesn't matter to storytellers