{"id":1328,"date":"2016-04-02T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2016-04-02T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T21:18:06","slug":"visions-of-the-future-lifeboathq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2016\/04\/visions-of-the-future-lifeboathq.html","title":{"rendered":"Visions of the Future (@lifeboathq)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"visions<\/p>\n

I’d like to draw your attention to my full review of Visions of the Future<\/em><\/a>, published to h+ Magazine<\/em> on 31 March 2016.<\/h3>\n

My review of Prospects for Human Survival<\/em>, also a Lifeboat Foundation book I got a review copy of from the think tank\u00a0itself, will appear at The clubof.info Blog<\/a> on Tuesday 5 April (I hope). Of course, I’m somewhat more critical of Prospects<\/em> than I am of Visions<\/em>, just\u00a0because I\u00a0really don’t like to be a personality who addresses the\u00a0politics of “existential risk” of the kind the Lifeboat Foundation was\u00a0established to look at scientifically. Visions of the Future<\/em> is more about visions of a sustainable, friendlier future, of the kind I prefer to focus on.<\/p>\n

I also avoid the fiction stories cataloged in Visions<\/em> because my fiction career is basically at an end. A person gets to be the\u00a0expert\u00a0at one thing in life, and I had my try at fiction. I don’t say I am bad at fiction. I must be okay, as my readers tend to say they enjoy my stories. I give them away for free when I can, and they can be downloaded for almost nothing at Amazon<\/a> if you care.<\/p>\n

It is just that from a business perspective, I probably made less than \u00a350.00 in profit from all the hours I ever put into writing indie science fiction. I just never had\u00a0the salesmen\u00a0or billboards behind me to help sell my fiction, and I realized it is more rewarding\u00a0to promote others than myself. Maybe this blog can be a billboard for someone else, such as the authors of this Lifeboat Foundation book (or such as Zoltan Istvan, as it is with this post<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Yes, I certainly like to review other people’s works and reward the hours they put into their writing. It is something I will do more of, in time. I want to focus, however, on nonfiction that really draws my attention and aligns with my own writing and interests. At this point in time, I probably read ten nonfiction books for every fiction book I read, if I read any of the latter at all these days.<\/p>\n

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