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Summer Hiatus for Unapocalyptic
My paid subscribers have helped me afford to indie-publish a new book. To get that off the ground, I'm focusing my summer on that and pausing…
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Karl Schroeder
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You Made My New Book Possible!
Thanks to you, I am able to publish Laika's Ghost, the complete story cycle about my anti-James Bond, Ukrainian arms inspector Gennady Malianov.
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Our Subtopian Future
Ecotopia's great and all, but what about the future of the grungy part of town? An exploration using the basic "atom" of scenario-based foresight…
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May 2025

Nation-Building in the North
Canada is reconfiguring itself as a strategic global power. How does that work?
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America in 2045 (Worldbuild With Me - Part 3)
If I'm writing a novel set in 2045, then what does the post-Trump world look like? There's no single answer--but that's a feature of worldbuilding, not…
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Nobody's More Woke Than Trump
For a century, the term 'woke' has meant 'aware of how values and prejudices are built into public and private institutions.' DOGE is all about…
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April 2025

Shooting Down Flying Cars (Worldbuild With Me - Part 2)
I said that eVTOLs have the potential to open up the North. But their current business model is urban transport. That's a mistake.
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George Jetson's Job in the Fourth Reich
Trump is promising to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. But with the rapid rise of robotics, those factories will be automated. So who benefits?
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Karl Schroeder
Either Settle Mars, or Save Earth
The number of launches needed to colonize the Red Planet is enough to orbit a sunshade that can save Earth from climate change. Why is this even a…
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Worldbuild With Me - Part 1: Scale
My new novel, Nightless, is set in the near future. It has to be a credible near future. Recent events have set me back to Square One, but you can help…
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March 2025

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