Facebook Contest Winner
Christine Williams won our Facebook contest with the post
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboa...0388455/
You can see the painting that Josef Holbert created for her at
http://lifeboat.com/images/facebook.painting.jpg
This is the Assateague Lighthouse on the Atlantic at the Assateague
National Seashore.
Now for a new contest! Anyone who posts to our Facebook group at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation by December 31, 2012
will be entered into a contest to win a free autographed DVD of "Orphans
of Apollo" (thanks to our Michael Potter). You can learn about the DVD
at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HJ...02HJHGUO
Lifeboat to the Stars
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.
The "Lifeboat to the Stars" award will be for the best work of science
fiction of any length published in 2011 or 2012 contributing to an
understanding of the benefits, means, and difficulties of interstellar
travel. This award will be presented by our Robert J. Sawyer, winner of
the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Our coordinating judge will be Robert J. Sawyer, our consulting judge
will be Greg Bear, and our other judges will include Catherine Asaro,
Jason Batt, Sherry E. Bell, Kevin M. Berry, Don V. Black, Stephan
Vladimir Bugaj, Brenda Cooper, David Gerrold, Niklas Järvstråt, Jim
Karkanias, Rouslan Krechetnikov, Wes Kretzschmar, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, George Perry, Allen M. Steele, Jr, John K. Strickland Jr, and
Allen G. Taylor.
We will also present a bibliographical survey at the 2013 Campbell
Conference which will cover prior science fiction describing methods of
interstellar travel.
The Chair of the Interstellar Travel Bibliographical Survey will be our
James Blodgett. Other members of the survey team will include Tracy
Atkins, Jason Batt, Greg Bear, Kevin M. Berry, André Caminoa, David
Gerrold, Niklas Järvstråt, Eva-Jane Lark, Mike E. McCulloch, Robert J.
Sawyer, Allen M. Steele Jr, John K. Strickland Jr, and Allen G. Taylor.
We wish to thank our James E. Gunn and Frederick Pohl for their
suggestions that led to this award and bibliographical survey.
You can learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/lifeboat.to.the.stars
Bitcoins
Chris Haley makes our largest Bitcoin donation yet, totaling 85 Bitcoins worth $1,000 in total at the time of his donation.
Extreme Futurist Festival
This festival is short a few women speakers. If you are a woman who
works in the fields of artificial intelligence, science, technology,
medicine, genetics, or new media and would like to give a talk in Los
Angeles at this cutting edge futurist event on December 21st or 22nd
please contact our Rachel Haywire at
You can learn more at http://extremefuturistfestival.com/
Blog
Odd Edges joins our blog team with the post "Evolution in a Toxic World"
at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/evolut...ic-world
Other interesting blog posts include:
"From Lunar Return to the First Colony" by John Hunt at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/from-l...t-colony
"The Propagation of Life: Infecting other Worlds" by Tom Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/the-pr...r-worlds
"The Unlikely Option? An Industrial Base on Planet Mercury" by Tom Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-un...-mercury
"The Witch-Hunt of Geophysicists: Society returns to the Dark Ages"
by Tom Kerwick at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-wi...ark-ages
"The Social Sciences Revolution" by Farooq Khan at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/the-so...volution
"Congratulations SpaceX" by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/congra...s-spacex
"The Kline Directive: Theoretical-Empirical Relationship (Part 4)"
by Benjamin T. Solomon at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/10/the-kl...p-part-4
"On Leaving the Earth. Like, Forever. Bye-Bye" by Reno J. Tibke at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/09/on-lea...-bye-bye
Also check out the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute blog at
http://gcrinstitute.org/blog
Support "Bulletproof skin: exploring boundaries by piercing barriers" by
our Jalila Essaïdi at http://www.indiegogo.com/bulletproofskin
Videos
Watch "Cubesats explained and why you should build one" by our Stephen Murphey at http://stephenmurphey.com/what-are-cubesats/
Antiviral Nano-Particles
Learn about our Erez Livneh's success in developing antiviral nano-particles at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/...tbvVX6ZR
Managing for Quality in Higher Education
Read "Managing for Quality in Higher Education — A Systems Perspective coauthored" by our Bob Krone at http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks/manage...ducation
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since our last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $1,500,
Chris Haley: $1,000 (in Bitcoins),
Kamal Zaki Mahmoud Ali Shaeer: $300,
Chris K. Porter: $120,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Anonymous: $65,
Tom Driscoll: $30,
J. Broadbent: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
BeeDictionary: $10,
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.
