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Sex work, the law, and Company Town

September 5, 2014 in Links

Madeline Ashby discusses her upcoming novel Company Town, which takes place on an oil rig in the Atlantic and delves into the legality and/or illegality of sex work in Canada.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Contributor: Geoffrey A. Landis

May 27, 2014 in Hieroglyph

Geoffrey A. LandisGeoffrey A. Landis is a scientist and a science fiction writer. As a scientist, he is a researcher at the NASA John Glenn Research Center. He works on projects related to advanced power and propulsion systems for space and planetary exploration, and is currently a member of the science team for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. As a science fiction writer, he has won a Nebula Award, two Hugo Awards and a Locus Award, as well as two Rhysling Awards for his poetry.

To learn even more about Geoffrey and his latest endeavors check out his website.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Contributor: Vandana Singh

April 24, 2014 in Featured Contributors, Hieroglyph

Vandana SinghVandana Singh is a science fiction writer and assistant professor of physics at Framingham State University in Massachusetts; her area of expertise is theoretical particle physics. Her short stories, which most recently include “Peripateia,” (2013), “Cry of the Kharchal” (2013), “With Fate Conspire” (2013), and “A Handful of Rice” (2012), frequently appear in Year’s Best and other anthologies. She also writes poetry as well as novels and short stories for children. Vandana was born and brought up in New Delhi, India. Her book The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories was released in February 2014 by the University of Chicago Press. To learn more about Vandana, visit her website.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Conversation: Ionic Levitation

March 28, 2014 in Hieroglyph

We were promised flying cars. Ionic levitation might be the path…

Take your dreams of levitating cars to the next level! Could an upgraded version of the ionocraft be the perfect addition to Neal Stephenson’s Tall Tower?

Join the conversation about what it might take to get these floating vehicles into the upper atmosphere.

 

 

 

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Contributor: David Brin

March 28, 2014 in Featured Contributors, Hieroglyph

David Brin is a scientist, best-selling author and tech-futurist. His novels include Earth (1990), The Postman (1985, filmed in 1997) and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising (1983) and The Uplift War (1987). A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book The Transparent Society (1998) won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.

David also works as a consultant and serves on advisory boards for some of the world’s most prominent corporations. He can be spotted on various television series on the History Channel, The Science Network and others. Learn more at https://davidbrin.com

 

Image courtesy of Joshin Yamada

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Conversation: Cryogenic Kids

February 24, 2014 in Hieroglyph

Cryogenic_KidsIf cryogenic sleep were possible, would a child who was frozen for an extended period continue to grow?

 

Join the conversation about these tiny time travelers and whether they’ll have a serious growth spurt to wake up to.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Contributor: Charlie Jane Anders

February 21, 2014 in Featured Contributors, Hieroglyph

Charlie Jane AndersCharlie Jane Anders writes about science fiction for io9.com and is the author of the novel Choir Boy (2005). She has contributed to Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, ZYZZYVA, Pindeldyboz, Strange Horizons, and many other publications. She is co-editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek (2006) and published an indy magazine called other, which bills itself the “magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts.”

Charlie Jane received the Lambda Literary Award in 2005, the Emperor Norton Award in 2009, and her 2011 novelette Six Months, Three Days won the 2012 Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Conversation: Restoring the Ocean’s Ecosystems

January 24, 2014 in Hieroglyph

Restoring the Ocean's EcosystemsHow can we restore the oceans to their former glory? Join the conversation about “replanting” the flora and fauna of the North Sea, establishing the elaborate food web and using social media to save the sea.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Contributor: James Cambias

January 22, 2014 in Featured Contributors, Hieroglyph

James CambiasJames Cambias is a New Orleans-based science fiction and fantasy writer whose stories have been nominated for the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In 2001, he was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Cambias has also made a name for himself within the gaming community as a tabletop designer and co-founder of Zygote Games.

His work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Hellboy: Odder Jobs, and several Year’s  Best anthologies.

Most recently, Cambias is the author of the novel A Darkling Sea, a first contact story about undersea exploration and inter-species conflict, which will be published later this month by Tor Books. To learn more about Cambias and his work, visit his blog.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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Featured Conversation: Deep Archives

December 20, 2013 in Hieroglyph

How can we create a permanent vessel to preserve human knowledge for the distant future? Futurist librarian and Long Now Foundation intern Heath Rezabek started a thread exploring the possibilities for extremely long term preservation and imagining alternatives to storing information in a purely electronic form.

Visit the Big Ideas Forum and join the conversation about deep archives, the ephemeral nature of digital information, and keeping the “library of life” going long after we’re gone.

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Lauren Pedersen
Lauren Pedersen was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona to a writer and a helicopter pilot. She is currently pursuing her two passions of art and design at Arizona State University, where she continues to work towards a bachelor's degree in Design Studies with a focus in Design History, and a minor in Art History.

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