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PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION FOR AN ETERNAL SPIRIT CORE
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Methodology and System for Generating, Installing, and Running A Persistent Memrionic Emulator of Recorded Neural Patterns, Also Known As An “Eternal Spirit” Core (ESC) In A Human Personal Nanomachine Network Environment Node.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
Becky Chambers grew up outside Los Angeles “in a family heavily involved in space science” her father worked in aerospace engineering, her mother worked as an astrobiology educator. Her mother loved genre fiction, so Chambers was reading and watching SFF shows before she’d started school. Despite the prevalence of the sciences in her family, she moved to the SF Bay Area to study theater at the University of San Francisco.
After years working in theater, she became a freelance writer. She crowdfunded debut novel
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet via Kickstarter in 2012, and in 2015 the book was republished by Hodder & Stoughton and Harper Voyager. The genre community immediately took notice:
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All lists rank hardcovers and paperbacks separately, except for the USA Today list, which is a single list combining fiction and nonfiction in all formats. Dates shown are posted dates, except those in parentheses, which are dates compiled. New York Times posts its list one week in advance of print publication.
Note that some sources do not compile paperback bestsellers, and some exclude YA books (like the Harry Potter series) from their hardcover and paperback fiction lists.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Over the last two months,
Clarkesworld readers have been helping to determine the best story and cover art that we published in 2020. While there’s almost always someone (or a group of someones) who tries to sway the process, the voting went rather smoothly this year. Participation was up slightly over 2019 with the majority of the final voting happening in the opening and closing days. We’d like to thank everyone who participated this year and hope you’ll continue your involvement next year.
Best Cover of 2020
The race for this year’s best cover art was interesting. Our winner maintained a clear lead from the start, but the remaining places were very close and frequently shifting. In the end, our readers selected:
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker
If you learned your economics from Heinlein novels or the University of Chicago, you probably think that “free market” describes an economic system that is free from government interference – where all consensual transactions between two or more parties are permissible.
But if you went to the source, Adam Smith’s
Wealth of Nations, you’ll have found a very different definition of a free market: Smith’s concern wasn’t freedom from
governments, it was freedom from
rentiers.
A rentier is someone who derives their income from “economic rents”: revenues derived from merely owning something. With a factory, you have workers who contribute labor, you have investors who build and maintain the physical plant, and you have the landlord, who siphons off some of the revenues derived from this activity because of his title to the dirt underneath the factory.