Colin Barrett: Blog

Technology is likely to change with each passing year, but human nature isn't. One of the points of science fiction is to explore how human nature copes with change in its surroundings.

Two chapters today. Well, the first one's very short, and I don't want to short-change you.

Have you ever been to one of those "orientation meetings" that didn't go exactly as planned?

Well, I said at the start that this one's slow. It gets going sooner or later, so bear with me.

And politics-always another constant of the human condition. Have you ever considered the extent to which politics played a major-not to say leading-role in the Age of Exploration? Today we think of it as being about the explorers themselves but, as in Eden, the root motivations lie in the political climate of the times.