Episode 14: M.D. Cooper on writing far future sci-fi, considerations on the pathway to interstellar colonization, and how raising children is like uplifting a civilization.
Alternate Futures21 Tammi 2022

Episode 14: M.D. Cooper on writing far future sci-fi, considerations on the pathway to interstellar colonization, and how raising children is like uplifting a civilization.

In this episode, I chat with military SF author M.D. Cooper on how she developed her Aeon-14 far future science fiction universe, what it takes to turn out 100+ books in six years, social and technological considerations on the pathway to interstellar colonization, and some similarities between raising a child and uplifting a civilization.

Further info on this and other episodes, as well as transcriptions, story cube images and story introductions, can be found at AlternateFutures.co.uk

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