Book
We are close to publishing our first book. You can read updates about
it at https://lifeboat.com/ex/book
The latest draft is available at
http://lifeboat.com/lifeboat.book.latest.draft.pdf
Our latest cover is at
http://lifeboat.com/lifeboat.book.cover.png Things are really heating
up on the cover front so we also have two covers by Nebula Award winning
Catherine Asaro at http://lifeboat.com/lifeboatcover01.pdf and
http://lifeboat.com/images/lifeboatclockcover.jpg And we have nine
covers by our Jason Batt at
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2efg1li3813r...ITRwms0R
Books
Read "Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization" by our Adrian Bejan at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038553...found-20 Read "Intergrationalism: Essays Exploiting Spiritual Disincentives" by our James Felton Keith at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161229...12290280 Read "Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World" by our James D. Miller at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193666...36661659 Read "Nexus" by our Ramez Naam at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/085766...57662937
Articles
Read "Cyber Deterrence and its Challenges" at http://news.cbrnresourcenetwork.com/new...m?id=108 Read "Space debris, a threat to modern society" at http://www.foi.se/en/Top-menu/Pressroom...society/
Videos
Watch "Adrian Bejan at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012: Be Fearless" at http://www.casefoundation.org/videos/ad...fearless
WorldFuture 2013
WorldFuture 2013 will be held July 19-21, 2013 at the Hilton Chicago
Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our Daniel Berleant, Peter C. Bishop,
Shelly Brenckman, Maree Conway, Brenda Cooper, José Luis Cordeiro, Cindy
Frewen, Jay Gary, Scott Gibbs, James Giordano, Ben Goertzel, Glen
Hiemstra, John Jackson, Bud Levin, Gary Marx, Ramez Naam, Richard M. Pfohl, Karen Sands, Heather Schlegel, John Smart, Rick Smyre, Nick
Spiller, Stephen Thaler, and Greg Van Alstyne will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.wfs.org/worldfuture-2013
InfoPreserver Program
Our InfoPreserver program has now been upgraded to a "Current Program" thanks to efforts by our Frank D. Smith. Learn more at http://lifeboat.com/ex/info.preserver Frank is also the artist who did our latest book cover which is linked to at https://lifeboat.com/ex/book
Our Future in Space Video
Support "Our Future in Space — A National Space Society Video" at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/351...ty-video
Facebook Contest
Joyce Bettencourt has won an autographed DVD of Orphans of Apollo due to
her Facebook post at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboa...5868455/.
Anyone who posts in our Facebook group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by February 28, 2013
will be entered into a contest to win a signed copy of the new — just
out — "Darkship Renegades", sequel to the Prometheus Award winning
"Darkship Thieves".
The following people have already entered this contest: Gerard Bain,
Paul Battista, Larry Bender, Mitchell Boden, Alex Michael Bonnici, Phil
Bowermaster, Mark Carney, Nikola Danaylov, Adam Falcon, Tristan
Hambling, James Felton Keith, Tom Kerwick, Josef Koch, Szabolcs Kósa,
Wes Kretzschmar, Stephen Lang, Ron Langdon, Jeremy Lichtman, Christopher
MacArthur, Gary Steven Mezo, Thomas Munyon, Moana Nalu, David Oker,
Lawrence A. Oshanek, Bakari A. Pace, Edward Pandemonium, Ira Pastor,
Boris Petrovic, Peter Rothman, Byron Craig Russell, Lorenzaccio SG, Kim
Solez, Marxist Stalinist, Khannea Suntzu, and Jason Xu.
Learn about "Darkship Renegades" at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/145163...51638523
Lifeboat to the Stars: Looking for Nominations
The Lifeboat Foundation will present the "Lifeboat to the Stars" award
along with $1,000 to the winner at the 2013 Campbell Conference where
the topic of the conference will be interstellar travel.
The conference will be held June 13-16, 2013. It will take place at the
Oread Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas, as the midway point between the Science
Fiction Writing Workshops and the Intensive English Institute on the
Teaching of Science Fiction. The Award dinner is held on the opening
Friday of the Conference and features the John W. Campbell Memorial
Award for the best science fiction novel of the year and the Theodore
Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year.
Send nominations for the award to Robert Sawyer at
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/lifeboat.to.the.stars
Blog
Interesting blog posts include:
"The Overview Effect and the Psychology of Cosmic Awe" by Odd Edges at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/12/the-ov...smic-awe
"AIAA Rocky Mountain — Sentinel Program" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2013/01/aiaa-r...-program
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Willard H. Wells: $300,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Tihamer 'Tee' Toth-Fejel: $50,
Anonymous: $35,
Tom Driscoll: $30,
Richard Kane: $30,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
and Ryan Witt: $10.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
