Category: General
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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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Some admin stuff…
What It’s All About It may not be totally clear what the subject matter for this site is, so let me attempt to clarify a bit. I created the domain name several years ago, with the intention to create and use a site to explore and write about two things that interest me (and that…
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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…