Reincarnations

[adelaidesean]

What would happen if reincarnation was real and didn't only go forwards? What do Feynman's time-travelling electron and the velocity of money have in common? One possible answer to both questions is in "The End of the World Begins at Home", which has been reprinted on-line in the e-anthology Journeys of the Mind, compiled by Sonny Whitelaw and published by Double Dragon. It's an odd piece for me, tapping into millennial fears and my half-hearted study of Economics almost twenty years ago. It was first published in Borderlands and I've always had a soft spot for it. I hope it'll be happy in its new home .

(And while on the subject of reprints, this time in translation, I'm pleased to report that The Resurrected Man and the Orphans trilogy have been picked up by Editions Bragelonne in France. This is great because I can actually read French. C'est fantastique!)

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[redactormajor.livejournal.com]

Heh ... Alice Gorman, an archaeologist from Adelaide, was just telling me that she'd corresponded with Reynolds about his depiction of archaeology ...

I know what you mean about spaceships and archaeology. Awesome.

The way I see it, we have more chance of coming across evidence of an vanished civilisation than an active one, because of

a) the lifespan of civilisations being slight compared to the age of the galaxy; and

b) the speed of light making interstellar communication asynchronous. Any message we receive is likely to be either a relic of an extinct civilisation, or an historical snapshot of an earlier stage in an existing civilisation