7 Panels at ARCHON 45 30 Sep to 02 Oct 2022

 Hello all,

was on 7 panels at the Archon 45 conference in Collinsville IL 30 Sep to 02 Oct and it was tiring but fun!

(Archon page: http://www.archonstl.org/ )

3 panels were on space farms or a twist thereof, 2 on current and near term space tech, and 1 on AI and the future.

I put the core slides on my space farm site: http://www.spacefarms.info :

•  ARCHON 45: Mars as Breadbasket to Outer Solar System 
•  ARCHON 45: Coffee and Truffles on the Moon 
•  ARCHON 45: selected slides from other presos  

Enjoy

   

Still cranking on Space FArm Book and waiting in slush piles.

 Just got back from NSS Space Settlement Summit, and helped run a nice session and panel on space settlement technologies at ASCEND 2021. Also posted all my presos on my SpaceFarms.info site. 

The Space Farm guide/book for technically interested readers of all backgrounds from high school to grad school is about 90% complete, and has has some posisitive reviews and fixes (thank you to Dr. Jane Shevtsov for lignin advice!).  Looking for a publisher too. Has 280 pages so far, likely end up around 350 pages once imagery,  index, glossary, and reference tables are added. Well over 200 figures so far, and around 50 tables.  Usable by anyone, and limits the technobabble and math to a minimum.

Also have 2 fantasy stories and a sci-fi novel in slush piles.

Remember Veterans Day on 11th Nov in the USA,

Bryce

ISSDC 2020 and still crunching the Space Farm book

ISSDC 2020 and still crunching the Space Farm book!

Between doing up presos for AIAA ASCEND 2020 ( on space poop), and judging the 2020 International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC 2020, see http://spaceset.org), still crunching away on my Space Farm textbook, which will be very rich in drawings and tables so anyone can read it, geek or no.

Also still have a sci-fi book in slush, fingers crossed!

Trillions of happy, smiling babies await!

Bryce 

Stuck in slush

Stuck in slush

Dropped my latest (as in been writing it for two decades+, had it copy-editied, now altered the first chapter, moving the original first chapter to the middle of the book, so that the main character is better developed right off)  sci-fi book in the Baen book slush pile, might get a hit (low probability?) in a year.  It is around 110,000 words.  Actually met Jim at an NSS conference, maybe that will help (likely not).
Also sent a short story  (2500 words) on dragons to try to sell it for an anthology. Again, a maybe, but I did sell a story already once, so maybe fantasy is a thing I should do. Working on a full fantasy novel, maybe done in a year.
Finally still pounding away on my Space Farm (text?) book. Most of the text is in, but now begins the drudgery of drawing all the tables and diagrams which will magnify the size of the book. Targeting around 300 pages +/-. For a general audience, but there is a section with math for those who want it.

Stay Safe,
Bryce
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00LMK5X1I
Space Farm Page: http://www.spacefarms.info
Art:  http://www.combat-fishing.com/DesignFishCafeCatalog.html 

Still Shopping for publishers....

Looking to reorder my latest sci-fi novel and resubmit...still looking for publishers for it.

Also working on my Space Farm Book.  Trying to get the draft done before NSS ISDC 2020 (I am doing two talks, one on poop in space) and AIAA ASCEND 2020 (dropping in abstracts this week). For those who don't know, I am up for the NSS National Board, on the board of St. Louis Space Frontier,  and on the AIAA Space Colonization Technical Committee.

In my copious free time, also writing up a fresh new fantasy novel.  8K words in, 92K or so to go....maybe by 2021. Targeting young adult audience, though should be an interesting read for grown-ups as well. Lots of adventures, journeys, and mysteries.  Universe creation takes series work, and drawing up maps, rules, and notes is a big part that shows up indirectly in the text of course.

If you are a real TRADITIONAL MODEL publisher (I can self publish myself, been there, done that) I am always open to ideas, for these books or any of the ones to date.

Agents maybe...


Later,
Bryce

p.s. was fun to talk space farms to the younger set at the Engineering Fest, SciFest, St. Louis Science Center 22 Feb. Thank you to those who helped, and those who came to see us! Hopefully many of the kids become space engineers!