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You know some things about me, so let me share sci fi things you don’t know!

My favorite sci-fi video game is Knights of the Old Republic.

My favorite sci-fi book is Dune.

I wrote 1 sci fi book and 1 cyberpunk series called City of the Spider.

As far as the future, I’m looking forward to seeing new innovations that help people with eyesight, spine injuries and also improved robotic limbs. I also would like to see hotels that are run by robots.

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Howdy Alexander, glad you downloaded some more lore. I learned more things, and I’m sure others here don’t know you as well ;)

Huh, never heard of that game! I’ll have to check it out.

Have we discussed Dune? I have SUCH feelings about it.

Feel free to add links to your books!

Ooh, you’re going to have a lot of fun with this cyborg augmentations world of Cain ;) The eyesight augs alone have given me a lot of fun material to play with stylistically.

Why a hotel run by robots? Would it be like one of those restaurants where the waitstaff are rude to patrons, but in a fun snarky way?

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No rude ones please! Haha, Japan actually has a hotel now run by robots, but I think it’ll get more advanced as we go and more spread out.

We have not discussed Dune, but I loved the books especially when I was younger.

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Hi all, my name's L.L. Ford (it's a pen name of course) and I am actually halfway through a PhD in developmental neuroscience! I do research into identifying circuits in the brain related to bonding and early life stress/trauma and specifically how that may impact children with Autism Spectrum Disorder differently (mind you I do all this in mice currently).

As for writing, I love my some good sci-fi, but I especially love cyberpunk and solar punk. Don't get me wrong, I also love stuff that takes me off into space, but I like the realistic stress of resource limitation and the (gosh what's that old short story called) "the cold hard calculations"(?) Of space.

I also like to play with perception as it's one of my favorite things in neuroscience. The visual system is like my own little passion, and in both sci-fi and horror, I like to play with the way people experience things and how it differs and alters our reality. That makes me thoroughly enjoy the intersection between sci-fi and fantasy which is what I mostly like to write!

Anyways, enough out of me! Can't wait to take part in this!

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Ooh i didn’t realize you’re actively taking part in rodent research—have you written anything here on Stack or on the inter webs summarizing what you do? I think it’d be a fascinating article for a swap!

Haha i live the realistic stress of resource limitation in space. I tend to read it but not necessarily write it since it just feels like a day at the office :D But with our powers and passions combined, I bet we could make something pretty awesome. Also, do I lose my sci-fi nerd card if i admit I have never heard for solar punk? *jumps off to Google *

YASSSS let’s play with perceptions. I’m going to try to use the platform’s visual element to experiment and try and really get readers to feel how it would feel to have these types of augmentations the character’s have.

I of course already have your email address so you’ll see a group email about instructions for collab into the Cain world soon :)

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I haven't written anything about it on here, really!I haven't really talked about it at all until this past week or so, but it was bound to mix in here at some point or another I suppose. I think it would be fun to talk about at some point in a more laid back and less academic setting so I'd like to!

That makes total sense! I'm not sure if you've seen the expanse, but there's a large portion in the second episode where they're running out of oxygen and the urgency as they're trying to survive just sparked something in me that made me realize how fascinating of a concept I found it... in fiction of course, please do keep helping people deal with limited resources in space! 😅 (and don't worry, I didn't know what solar punk was until a year ago but I loved it immediately)

Anyways, can't wait to collaborate and chat more! Thanks so much for including me!

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I'm David Perlmutter from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A history MA and currently unemployed library technician who has authored two traditionally published animation history books, as well as many indie published books of little renown. I publish fiction of all types (including SF) on Made From What's Real, and essays on animation history on FOCUS!

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Hi David! Hope you’re staying warm way up yonder. I’m not gonna lie, your bio sounds like the undercover persona for a super hero and I’m not outing you, just sayin’.

What’s the weirdest thing anyone ever did in the library that you observed?

More importantly, care to share links to your work so folks can find it? Sounds like you bring a lot of grind to this!

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This is the kind of thing I came here for. I would love to collab with everyone wherever it takes us. Exciting.

I am Jon T, Ive been fortunate to be a professional creative for many years. I am a designer, writer, musician, technologist and all around creative director. I like to write sci-fi, dark and surreal fiction. And I am fascinated with telling stories using all the media and content tools available to us. I love meta fiction concepts and how they create a rich immersive experience. Its great that you’ve added a music angle to this as well. Heart heart double heart. You can reach me at swoonjet @ gmail for passing secret notes

Oh ya. I also love hiding easter eggs in narratives, artifacts and ephemera.

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Ok i had to take about a minute to calm down after seeing that adorable ascii creature.

I’m psyched to hear you’re into music and this creative gig is what you do for a living!! I’m here for dark and surreal and for using the tools available to us on Substack to our advantage to tell a more sensory-rich story.

What sort of music do you do? I’d love your ideas on bringing more otherworldly vibes to this many universe story. One of the main characters mixes music but I am not gifted with musical abilities. I want to be clear, I’m here for all your dark, surreal fiction—I also wanted to know how to get your music brain into this.

Please stand by for secret notes. I will be sure to describe one of the things I’ve been searching for in music and see if you have any ideas.

PS. I also love Easter eggs.

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This is so cool!

I'm SDG Lemaître (not my real name, but not going to post that at the moment b/c I don't want my writing to be connected with me at my current workplace). I originally trained as a physicist, and worked in experimental particle physics for some years, though more on the software / data management side of things - how to handle the huge amounts of data that come from the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider and experiments like that. Later I worked on similar projects in China, then went into journal publishing and eventually into teaching. I'd love to be able to chip in to Sci-fi Soothsayers in some way drawing on that experience (though I certainly don't claim any deep expertise nowadays!!).

Since way before that, I loved astronomy and space, and I love big space opera sci-fi and stories that make you think, or that explore science in relation to faith. (Side note, I was one of the maybe 10% of women working in my field at the time, so I also enjoy writing that examines the sociocultural aspects of science and the dynamics of scientists working together). More recently I've been reading more biology-related popular science (like Ed Yong's "An Immense World") and find that utterly fascinating. There's so much awesome stuff we don't know, or understand only poorly, about different forms of life.

My email: sdglemaitre at gmail dot com

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Hi SDG, I’m so thrilled to have a physicist in our midst!! Your work sounds absolutely jaw dropping and I can’t wait to get science IRL stuff on plasmas and programming. What a cool intersection.

Speaking of, we can for sure swap war stories about being the one of a few females in a sea of dudes. I certainly experienced that in college and for the first 6 years of engineering work. I will say I had a ton of fabulous guy colleagues, professors, bosses, and mentors—don’t get me wrong! Back then I didn’t even really know how different it might be working with more females because status quo was just what it was. Now that I do, I see a lot of interesting differences. There’s a book called Reflections on Gender and Science that talk about how traditional gendered values (men being ‘rational’ and women valuing ‘feelings’) affected goals and outcomes of big scientific inquiries. /rant.

PS: I swear I’m not anti-dudes :D <3

Thank you for sharing your email, you’re on the list to receive collab instructions ;)

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