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B Cubed has put out Alternative Theologies, book 3 in the Alternative Series. Perhaps go over the entire book list.

As a note, B Cubed has put out Alternative Theologies, book 3 in the Alternative Series. Perhaps go over the entire book list.

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Last year I and my kids really enjoyed Discovery. It was every Sunday night the kids would remind me to play the stream as soon as it was available. Many a late night to bedtime had happened because of it.

If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to borrow the idea of eras from science. These eras are independent of genre as genres are closely tied to the human condition at the time rather than the technology to produce story. I expect that the eras will continue to change faster as we speed toward the Singularity.  I offer free a poster of how the seminal work of a new scifi-genre  maps into an era.

​Although science fiction existed in the 1500s, we don't get the word "science fiction" until the 1900s, when critic, publisher, and writer Hugo Gernsback came up that compound word along with several other alternatives, most of which didn't stick. The early 1900s was an era of standardization as critics like Hugo used their critical voices to influence the market to be critical what was science fiction and what was not, as well as complaining about the quality of the science in science fiction. For example, Hugo refused to publish any science fiction that featured people walking or floating in the vacuum of space without a space suit.

Perhaps you're new to SciFi or perhaps you've been reading SciFi for a few decades. Have you wondered when science fiction came about? For example: Did you know that this story telling genre about the future is quite old?