Douglas A. Van Belle

Yeah, I've been analyzing US politics for 40 years and I have never seen underlying numbers like we're seeing now.

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Suddenly, this has become my favourite quote from Johnny Dangerously.
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A World Adrift Venus has become a world of Zeppelin cities where merchants fly carbon-fiber airships. Whalers harpoon tin behemoths that rise from the murky depths. And the only woman who can save it all from ruin i...

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Hey Chuck, my kids are big fans and would be over the moon if you gave their radio drama podcast a listen. It's a whole new genre, Customer Service Dystopian Satire. Cheers. Doug
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Episode 4 of the kids' podcast just dropped! I'm writing Ep 7 for them right now

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My poster at the Penn State SETI symposium

Pics from our first day of #WorldCon! @dougvanbelle.bsky.social and I did some panel pinch-hitting with "Finding Exoplanets and Extreme Solar Systems", and then two interviews for our "Life in a Universe Full of Exoplanets" podcast with Larry Niven and Rebecca Demarest

Worldcon 2025. This is the most magnificent convention space I have ever seen

For those of you with kids at WorldCon, I'll be bringing some copies of my young reader's book, which is almost impossible to get outside of New Zealand, to my Autograph Session on Friday 10:30-11:30. Free for kids.

Gotta say, that makes more sense

Oh Great, you did something with the word Television in it, now all the Chinese Journals are going to be hounding me about Astronomy stuff and you about Media Studies Stuff

Congestive heart failure: Stages 1–4 symptoms and causes Systolic congestive heart failure makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood through the body. Learn more here.

Everyone needs to look up the symptoms for late-stage congestive heart failure.
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If they do it, we have a duty to figure out how to game their system

The best part is that plate tectonics move us farther from the US every day.

Establish a classic Douglas Adams Someoneelsesproblem field by sneaking into all your neighbours' gardens and planting catnip.

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I also write about space ships.

I will be a busy boy at WorldCon #2

Fri 10:30am-11:30am
Autographs

Fri 1:30pm-2:30pm
What A Disaster: Disaster movies in pop culture

Fri 6:00pm-8:30pm
Life in a Universe Full of Planets

Sat 9:00am-10:00am
Dystopias: Science Fiction as a Warning

Sat 4:30pm-5:30pm
The History of the Future

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Wed 12:00pm-1:00pm
Table Talks 3

Wed 3:30pm-4:00pm
Disentangling the reciprocal information flows between scientist and science fiction authors

Thu 9:00am-10:00am
Does A Novel Need a Blueprint?

Thu 3:00pm-4:00pm
What is Science Fiction Good For?

Sushi knife?

Hmmmn, any chance you might be talked into a really, post, post doc, who has a POLS phd, but writes science fiction. Asking for a friend, obviously.

My brother @dougvanbelle.bsky.social just be shipping swords to me in the international post…

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It's not even done correctly. I'd fail one of my students if they turned this in as a survey design.

Just FYI for anyone wondering if the Exoplanet images being posted are AI. Here are the best, highest-resolution images to date. 9 pixels.

Hardest part of writing is winning the trust of the director and producer