Category: Dirtside
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The Backstory
A Bit of Explanation (a.k.a My Backstory) I audited a Creative Writing class at the Alexandria, VA, campus of the Northern Virginia Community College during the Fall of 2001. I’d been interested in writing for quite a while and figured I’d give it a try and get some formal instruction and guidance. Maybe that was…
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Assumptions, Part 1: Dirtside
Before we can begin to investigate the possibility of successfully rebuilding civilization, we first need to describe our set of assumptions. For the purposes of this web site, we’ll have two sets of assumptions: one for the situation and conditions of “interstellar” travel (that is, the trip from one habitable planet to another, on what…