Primitive versus Advanced Technology
One of the main themes of Erebus Tales is the shocking contrast between primitive and advanced technology.
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Monthly Archives: November 2024
30
Nov
Thanksgiving and First Contact
Every schoolchild learns how Thanksgiving started. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in December of 1620.
30
Nov
Will Climate Change Force Mass Migrations?
Hurricanes of unprecedented severity …
22
Nov
Onwei Culture
The people who inhabit 24thcentury Antarctica – I call them the Onwei
22
Nov
22
Nov
Iridium and The Erebus Volcano
Erebus, Antarctica’s best known and the world’s southernmost active volcano, overlooks the McMurdo
07
Nov
Slaking Maize – Don’t Cut Corners
In Stone Fever, the omission of a key ingredient in making tortillas turns out to be the cause of a mysterious epidemic that plagues
07
Nov
Tropical Antarctica?
Erebus Tales imagines that the ice sheet now covering Antarctica has melted by the 24th century, allowing settlement by
07
Nov
Shamans and Curanderos
Stone Fever portrays a shaman in the person of Yoka Sutu, a wizened Black crone. Aldo Correon, the gaucho foreman, or jeaf.
07
Nov
Dreamtime
(The Dreaming)
In Erebus Tales, a sizable portion of the Onwei tribes peopling 24th century Antarctica are descendants of Australians, who migrated