DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES COME TO ARCADIA
Arcadia is contacting the other human colonies, extending the trade agreement they've negotiated with Amber and Earthsea. They are building hyperspace liners, capable of massive trade and travel among the colonies.
But that trade brings with it disruptive technologies -- robots, life extension, and much more. The possibilities of societal disruption and upheaval are very real.
At the same time, the current Chen -- Chen MinChao and Jessica Chen-Jasic -- are retiring. In the middle of all the other changes going on, the Chen-Jasic family will be under new leadership.
Chen ChaoLi and Chen JieMin are in the thick of the action, trying to stay one step in front of the troubles they see coming.
AN INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND
At the end of "Galactic Survey", they had just found Olympia, the 21st planet. Where does the story go from there?
They have new planets to visit, including Olympia. There are issues with them, getting them signed up to the treaty, but once Olympia signs on they are only missing three colony locations. So there's a bunch more work to do signing everybody up. They do get all twenty-one planets they have locations for signed up, though.
And that's when the trouble starts?
Yes. All of the planets are in possession of mature, disruptive technologies. Which means a lot of societal adaptation is necessary in a hurry. And societies don't adapt in a hurry. There's the rub.
The blurb mentions the Chen retiring.
Chen MinChao and Jessica Chen-Jasic have been Chen Zufu and Chen Zumu for twenty years. It's time to retire. How to pull that off, how to get continuity, while sorting out all the other issues, is not easy.
How long did Silk Road take to write?
Thirty-three calendar days, writing every day, seven days a week, for an average of about 2450 words per day. That's about right for me.
And you wrote into the dark again?
Oh, yes. I never know where a book is going to go when I start it. I had a list of the colonies, in drop-off order, and their technical specialties and consumer products, and that was it. I included that list, and a list of all the characters thus far in the series, in an appendix to "Silk Road". I have a lot of characters, and readers asked for a list.
What's the cover this time?
Another effort by Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studio, to my specification. That's ChaoLi in the observation window, with one of the large cargo shuttles on a four-wide, two-high container stack, arriving at a hyperspace liner. In typical Arcadia dress, of course -- lavalava and sandals, and topless.
What's next for the COLONY series?
I don't know yet. There's a lot of foreshadowing in this book that I can spin off of. I'm tempted now to skip ahead, to the point where the colonies contact Earth. That could get messy.
But you don't know.
Of course not!
Genre: Science Fiction
Arcadia is contacting the other human colonies, extending the trade agreement they've negotiated with Amber and Earthsea. They are building hyperspace liners, capable of massive trade and travel among the colonies.
But that trade brings with it disruptive technologies -- robots, life extension, and much more. The possibilities of societal disruption and upheaval are very real.
At the same time, the current Chen -- Chen MinChao and Jessica Chen-Jasic -- are retiring. In the middle of all the other changes going on, the Chen-Jasic family will be under new leadership.
Chen ChaoLi and Chen JieMin are in the thick of the action, trying to stay one step in front of the troubles they see coming.
AN INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND
At the end of "Galactic Survey", they had just found Olympia, the 21st planet. Where does the story go from there?
They have new planets to visit, including Olympia. There are issues with them, getting them signed up to the treaty, but once Olympia signs on they are only missing three colony locations. So there's a bunch more work to do signing everybody up. They do get all twenty-one planets they have locations for signed up, though.
And that's when the trouble starts?
Yes. All of the planets are in possession of mature, disruptive technologies. Which means a lot of societal adaptation is necessary in a hurry. And societies don't adapt in a hurry. There's the rub.
The blurb mentions the Chen retiring.
Chen MinChao and Jessica Chen-Jasic have been Chen Zufu and Chen Zumu for twenty years. It's time to retire. How to pull that off, how to get continuity, while sorting out all the other issues, is not easy.
How long did Silk Road take to write?
Thirty-three calendar days, writing every day, seven days a week, for an average of about 2450 words per day. That's about right for me.
And you wrote into the dark again?
Oh, yes. I never know where a book is going to go when I start it. I had a list of the colonies, in drop-off order, and their technical specialties and consumer products, and that was it. I included that list, and a list of all the characters thus far in the series, in an appendix to "Silk Road". I have a lot of characters, and readers asked for a list.
What's the cover this time?
Another effort by Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studio, to my specification. That's ChaoLi in the observation window, with one of the large cargo shuttles on a four-wide, two-high container stack, arriving at a hyperspace liner. In typical Arcadia dress, of course -- lavalava and sandals, and topless.
What's next for the COLONY series?
I don't know yet. There's a lot of foreshadowing in this book that I can spin off of. I'm tempted now to skip ahead, to the point where the colonies contact Earth. That could get messy.
But you don't know.
Of course not!
Genre: Science Fiction
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