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Reading Recommendation: Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Reading Recommendation: Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress. September 10th 2014 at 6:30 am. While I was back at the World Future Society in July, my long-time friend and roommate, Gisele Peterson, was reading an advanced copy of “Yesterday’s Kin,” by Nancy Kress. I was jealous. I can’t say too much without delivering spoilers, but this is well worth your time. Filed in Reading Recommendations. You can subscribe to the. Feed for this entry. To keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback. I’m e...
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Gaming for Good - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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October 28th 2014 at 11:56 am. Each team worked on a topical big issue from conservation through nuclear disarmament (Remember the nukes? Some of us do. Viscerally. But millennials may not). Artist Jacob Glaser working at the hackathon. Photo credit Jamais Cascio. Each team produced about 8 pages worth of graphic story, and a number of tasks to accompany it. Some groups proposed linking the game to the player’s real world. Will these games work? It’s hard to create compelling entertainment with an agenda...
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Edge of Dark Readings Coming Soon - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Edge of Dark Readings Coming Soon. February 12th 2015 at 10:32 pm. I’ve got a number of appearances coming soon. The fi. Rst is at the University Bookstore. On the 4th of March. This will be my first public reading of Edge of Dark where the book is actually available. So it’s pretty much to launch party. Come on down! I’d love to have a full house of friends for this. After that, I’ll be at Norwescon 38, April 2nd – 4th, where I will be on a number of panels and will have a readings. Feed for this entry.
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Mayan December - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Mayan Summer by Brenda Cooper. What if you were a famous scientist and had studied astronomy and ancient culture for years? What if the one time period that drove your career was December, 2012? And worse, what if on December 14, your only daughter disappeared into the past in the Mayan jungle? What do an ancient shaman, a modern-day scientist, a computer nerd in dreadlocks, and an eleven-year-old girl have in common? Mayan December now available in audio. Well, it’s December 2012. If you order...It̵...
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Publication News: Coming Soon Enough out now! - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Publication News: Coming Soon Enough out now! August 26th 2014 at 6:29 am. I’ve got a story out in a new anthology that I wanted to be sure people don’t miss. It’s called “Coming Soon Enough,”. And the anthology has six stories — by Nancy Kress, Mary Robinette Kowal, Greg Egan, Cheryl Rydbom, Geoffrey Landis, and me. It’s really very well done and I very much enjoyed the stories by the other authors (and had fun writing mine). You can get it online in the kindle store for 1.99. You can subscribe to the.
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Ruby's Song: The Creative Fire and The Diamond Deep - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Ruby’s Song: The Creative Fire and The Diamond Deep. Nothing can match the power of a single voice…. THE CREATIVE FIRE is character driven, social science fiction. The story echoes a mythic tale out of our planet-bound past. Like the historical Evita Peron, Ruby rises from the dregs of society to hold incredible popularity and power. Her story is about love and lust and need, about rising to a challenge, and about a thirst for knowledge and influence so deep that it burns. Vitality into the milieu. 8221;...
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Six by Six is Live! - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Six by Six is Live! December 1st 2014 at 6:44 am. I’m super excited to announce (finally! The launch day for my very first Kickstarter. I’ve backed 50 (yes, 50) Kickstarter projects. They’ve varied from my Pebble watch to my friend’s books, from expensive things I haven’t yet gotten (but almost certainly will) to perfectly delivered delights. Only 5 have failed to fund. And here I am leaping into the Kickstarter water. At least I’m not going in alone there’s six of us! How lucky can a writer be? I am a w...
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Blog - Brenda Cooper Brenda Cooper
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Reading Recommendation: Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. E O Wilson’s Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Is one of the best books I’ve read on the future of Earth. He states the problem clearly….after beginning with an apt description of what we (mankind) are like and then stating that we have little time to spend on the wrong trajectory, he says:. It’s not impossible. Unlike many authors with roots in the environmental w. The collective human mind, hyperconnected and digitized, will flow t...
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Wings of Creation Mass Market - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Wings of Creation Mass Market. April 28th 2012 at 6:17 pm. Can now be pre-ordered in Mass Market paperback edition. Filed in Book Sidebar. You can subscribe to the. Feed for this entry. To keep track of comments. You can also use to trackback. I am a writer, public speaker, and a futurist. I’m interested in how new technologies might change us and our world, particularly for the better. Reading Recommendation: Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Worldcon Schedule – Kansas City!
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PressKit - Brenda Cooper at Brenda Cooper
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Short version of bio for fiction appearances. Brenda Cooper has published fiction in. Analog, Oceans of the Mind, Nature,. And in multiple anthologies. Her most recent novel is THE CREATIVE FIRE, from Pyr. By day, she is the City of Kirkland’s CIO, and at night and in early morning hours, she’s a futurist and writer. Short version of bio for speaking engagements. Brenda is a technology professional, and currently serves as the CIO for the City of Kirkland in Washington State. Interview with Annie Tupek.
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