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b'Let\'s talk commo! How does the ubiquity of communication tech affect your story? How far out of your own experience do you need to step in order to build a culture whose communications are believable?
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\\nWe talk about the Great Wall of China, Napoleon\'s visual semaphore, the Brin P2P Plan, and cell-phones in the X-files. Our goal? To get you to think about how the people in your stories communicate with each other, and how those communications can fail whether you\'re writing fantasy or science-fiction.
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\\nAudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, narrated by Jonathan Davis.
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\\nErrata:\\xa0The Ringworld\\xa0is not 93 million miles in diameter. That was the approximate\\xa0radius. Also, Howard got the circumference wrong. If only we\'d had instant access to some sort of database, some network of computational resources while we were recording this episode...
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\\nWriting Prompt: Start with a fax machine, make it a 3d-printer/prototyper, and run from there...
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