Near Space: Distancing Included.

On Sale Spacers!

I have been re-reading a lot Spacers(TM): Universe material for the last couple of weeks.  It seems multiple things have been going on during this creative impulse that sometimes bordered on a job, but always turns out to be as fresh and fun as decent party someplace interesting,  are coming into play. I am an optimist. Between news, literature, S-F, the Bible, porn, real books, and propaganda, I've been reading a wagon load of material and the viewpoints that come along with them. Luckily I haven't slipped into the trap of polarity and nihilism.

In Spacers (TM): Near Space,  90% of the clunky writing describing the future of a humanity that measures itself in terms of a solar system, is about representation. Since the late 90s, I have moved beyond equality in terms of race, sexual fixation, and political stance. I was at this space mentally, while in college and the US Army on two continents to begin with, in 1989. What has happened to the rest of the world is their own fault.  I wrote "While the world circa 350 years from now seems Utopian, that actually is not the case. People are still self-serving and often work against one another. Privilege and opportunity are meted out by location and family more often than by need or merit. Incorporated interests still strive to exploit the resources available to them and then deprive those not part of their franchise. But things are still a whole lot better for all the human population than ever before. Speaking of population, that population is bigger than ever and only getting bigger. This could explain why space exploration and colonization is bigger than military arms – overcrowding without starvation just gets people adventurous." long before Clinton was out of office, let alone before Jodie Whitacker was a Dr. Who, I was on about what is humanity and where is it going, I was optimistic about expansive endeavor.

The fantasy of electricity only obtained from fossil fuels for mundane tasks, like learning to read and heating shower water, always kind of bugged me. As we see these days it is easily proven wrong. While advocates of the Newt McGrimace blue-suits tell everyone how solar and winds can't do this or that, the impoverished world, according to the media, is doing just that. They just happen to be selling their successes to China to sell to the USA ascproducts for 400%+ profit. Since the start of the current plague times of Covid-19, we've all started noticing, "hey why don't we have solar panels and wind turbines everywhere since 35% of everybody is mostly unemployed these days?"

Still for all my griping, sales are up and the perfect time to release, Spacers (TM): Near Space.