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Karl Schroeder

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Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is a Canadian science fiction author. [1]

29 relations: Augmented reality, Aurora Awards, Brandon, Manitoba, Canadians, Chris Hadfield, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Donna Shirley, Futures studies, Graham Harman, Ian Bogost, Interstellar travel, Jane Bennett (political theorist), Judith Merril, Lawrence M. Krauss, Mennonites, Muses, Nanotechnology, OCAD University, Permanence (novel), Quentin Meillassoux, Robert D. Richards, Science fiction, Speculative realism, Sun of Suns, Terraforming, Timothy Morton, Toronto, Ventus (Schroeder novel).

Augmented reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whose elements are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory.

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Aurora Awards

The Aurora Awards are given out annually for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, artworks, fan activities from that year.

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Brandon, Manitoba

Brandon is the second-largest city in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Chris Hadfield

Chris Austin Hadfield (born 29 August 1959) is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Donna Shirley

Donna Lee Shirley (born 1941) is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Futures studies

Futures studies (also called futurology) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them.

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Graham Harman

Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

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Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer.

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Interstellar travel

Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systems.

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Jane Bennett (political theorist)

Jane Bennett (born July 31, 1957) is an American political theorist and philosopher.

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Judith Merril

Judith Josephine Grossman (January 21, 1923 – September 12, 1997), who took the pen-name Judith Merril about 1945, was an American and then Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist, and one of the first women to be widely influential in those roles.

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Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.

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Mennonites

The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (which today is a province of the Netherlands).

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Muses

The Muses (/ˈmjuːzɪz/; Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.

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OCAD University

OCAD University, formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design, is a public university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Permanence (novel)

Permanence is a 2002 science fiction novel by Karl Schroeder.

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Quentin Meillassoux

Quentin Meillassoux (born 1967) is a French philosopher.

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Robert D. Richards

Robert D. Richards is a Canadian-born space entrepreneur.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Speculative realism

Speculative realism is a movement in contemporary Continental-inspired philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms "correlationism").

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Sun of Suns

Sun of Suns, Book One of Virga, is a science fiction novel by Karl Schroeder, published by Tor in 2006.

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Terraforming

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.

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Timothy Morton

Timothy Bloxam Morton (born 19 June 1968) is a professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Ventus (Schroeder novel)

Ventus is a 2001 science fiction/fantasy novel by Karl Schroeder.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schroeder

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