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The scene after the end of ‘Dual Memory’
If you’ve read the novel Dual Memory, you know how it ends — and then what happens? For fun, I wrote what might be the…
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Named after tulips
My latest novel, Dual Memory, drew very vague inspiration from the Dutch tulip bubble in the 1630s (the real tulipmania, not the hysterical pseudo-history). Because…
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How to say “Stevland” – according to Diana Ross
As you know, Stevland is a character in the novel Semiosis, specifically a bamboo tree. The bamboo was named after a colonist who died on…
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Plant food: take no chances
My novel Semiosis is set on a distant planet called Pax where iron is a scarce element in the planetary crust. But plants need iron,…
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