Alternative Futures: Threats and New Hope
Appendix B. Appendix B to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event is immanent. The emphasis is on how...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Wasteworlds
Appendix C. Appendix C to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event has already occurred. There have been...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: The Powers that Be
Appendix D. Appendix D to Alternative Futures describes a world in which a catastrophic event or phenomenon (often man-made) has already...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Disarray
Appendix E. Appendix E to Alternative Futures describes a world in which we see a recognizable world absent of apparent transformations,...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Feb 7, 2022
Alternative Futures: Inversion
Appendix F. Appendix F to Alternative Futures highlights what is perhaps the greatest strength of science fiction for use as a tool for...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Jan 17, 2022
Imagining the Future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes
Abstract: Classifying fiction illuminates the future. The technique for imagining the future presented in this paper using a rapid,...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 29, 2021
Steampunk Airships: Three features that (nearly) define a genre
Not all Steampunk novels feature airships, but enough of them do that it requires a deeper look. These amazing sky machines appear almost...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 29, 2021
Book Review - Becoming a Professional Futurist: A Five-Step Approach
For sound and practical advice, tons of useful information, and an assortment of extremely helpful tools, “Becoming a Professional...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 21, 2021
Fantasy Airships: Hidden themes in movies, books, and video games
My upcoming novel, the Flight of the St. Paul, prominently features a modern Lockheed-Martin airship nearly 300 feet long with a cargo...
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Dr. Timothy X. Merritt
- Dec 20, 2021
Spiritual Attacks: Drawing You to Sin #8
If you are experiencing spiritual anxiety because you see people benefiting from what you know to be sin, you may be under Spiritual...
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