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https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/220-art-berman #Geopolitics #EnergyBlindness #GlobalCrisis #Resilience #Renewables #Futurescapes #Systemsthinking

Critical read, albeit lengthy.

‘‘The old world was forged in carbon. The new one will be forged in silicon, lithium, copper, green iron and aluminium — refined with clean electrons and traded between nations that chose to build rather than extract.’’ https://substack.com/home/post/p-194656234 #Geopolitics #Futurescapes #Climate

🔥 We live in an age of overwhelm. Social media, geopolitical chaos, the dizzying pace of an AI revolution that was supposed to make our lives easier and is instead being used to complicate, confuse and even end them. It is a lot. Tchaikovsky’s books offer something the Institute for the Future might call “future thinking”

https://strangestaeons.substack.com/p/adrian-tchaikovsky-is-the-science #books #futurescapes

In a city of endless light, a solitary soul watches over the long night.

​​ #RetroAnime #NeonNoir #SciFiArt #90sAnime #FutureScapes #AnimeAesthetic #IAArt

I will attend the #Futurescapes writers workshop this spring. Looking forward to meet the new and old faces and learn a lot.

#Writing

#FeedbackFriday

Is it just my impression or has it indeed become harder to sell novels that center trauma? I have only anecdotal evidence, so I wonder what others think about this.

My query went through three sessions of the #Futurescapes workshop, QueryShark, and several other agents. I even disclose my personal trauma, for authenticity. My confidence in my pages has been confirmed by others many times.

But I only ever get form rejections, even from the agents that helped me with the query.