Urban planning in science fiction
Science fiction often portrays how people live in the future, but rarely gets into the decisions or urban planning processes that got them to that point. I’ve had to think about Sa’adani urban planning philosophies lately in order to better characterize some city settings in my writing. This is part 1 of a 2-part post exploring Sa’adani philosophy about city development and urban living.
What I hate about galactic empires
Galactic empires offer us the opportunity to break away from 20th/21st-century culturally rooted stories and milieus and go someplace truly daring. Too many of these stories don’t. They not only fail to be daring, they don’t even bother to leave Terran man behind, and cling instead to the safe ground of the known social context. These are empires for the faint-hearted.
Women who write military science fiction books
I’m a woman and a U. S. Army veteran. That puts me in a small class of authors who, like Elizabeth Moon and Sandra McDonald, have military experience and also write military science fiction.
McDonald’s and Moon’s works are intriguing – and unfortunately something I won’t read while I have a military sf book of my own in development.
