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	Talk:Gaia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The reorganization implied that the use of Gaia in relationship to Gaia theory was the primary usage and that all others were less important secondary uses.
		Point D. "Gaia model of Gaia theory" seems to mean "The model of Gaia theory." It is redundant.
		Point F. "Gaia metaphor of Gaia philosophy" see Point D. Point G. "Gaia metaphor" turns up just 258 hits on Google, of these only 93 are suitably distinct for google to display them and one is wholy unrelated (poetry portal).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Gaia (580 words)

	Gaia01.htm
		It is well known that University SF Society memberships are invariably dominated by (typically well over three-quarters) those studying for science degrees.
		Gaia is not convinced that these questions have been answered; however others on the Concat team are more enthusiastic.
		Which is quite strange considering, as we have previously revealed, official surveys have shown that about a quarter of UK graduate physicists were originally turned on to their subject due to a prior interest in SF.
	www.concatenation.org /science/gaia01.html (1151 words)

	Some Thoughts On Ethics and Science Fiction
		I don't want to put all of SF in certain eras in a box, but it is fair to say that one of the dominant themes of the 1930's and 1940's in SF was technology.
		In the 1950's, sociological SF was all the rage, and the ethics of societies and such were prominent.
		As a result of this, much fiction (and SF is no exception) is concerned with trying to set up a moral compass in a universe in which God (and God-given moral principles) does not exist.
	www.spectacle.org /396/scifi/pavlac.html (2091 words)

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		Gaia is a vast system including bacteria that controls levels of atmospheric gases.
		Modern societies, by contrast, seem to have adopted the purpose of growing to their maximum extent.
		Having eliminated most or all of their natural competitors, humans now face no limits other than those imposed by the planet or the perverse consequences of their own actions.
	www.well.com:70 /0/WER/Book_Reviews/Ecological_Literacy (1263 words)

	Additional References: Terraforming
		Fogg, Martyn J., "The Terraforming of Venus", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 40, 551-564, 1987.
		Fogg, Martyn J., "Dynamics of a Terraformed Martian Biosphere", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 46, 293-304, 1993.
		Zubrin, R., "The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization,"Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 48(10), 407-414, 1995.
	www.science.gmu.edu /~msalvado/csi801proj/addref.html (1361 words)

	Science fiction in Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fandom has been around in Croatia since the 1976, when the SFera SF society was established.
		There are a number of Science fiction conventions, societies, and Science fiction fanzines.
		This page was last modified 11:37, 1 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction_in_Croatia (78 words)

	The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
		SF Site Interviews: In past issues, we've interviewed Neal Stephenson, Tad Williams, Tim Powers and many others.
		SF Masterworks and Fantasy Masterworks: here are lists of all the Orion titles along with links to the reviews we've done to date.
		SF Site Contributor Appearances: we'd like to meet you, hear what you think about our work.
	www.sfsite.com /home133.htm (1829 words)

	Locus: 1997 SF Novels
		The Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson (Tor 3/97, hc) SF novel, fourth and final book in the Harvest of Stars sequence, in which near-immortal Anson guthrie heads back toward Earth, and a would-be spaceman challenges the cybercosm, while the author examines far-future politics, philosophy, and technology.
		Fortress on the Sun, Paul Cook (Roc 7/97, $5.99, pb) Tense SF thriller set in a 21st-century prison colony that once was a plasma-processing facility within the solar photosphere.
		Days of Cain, J.R. Dunn (Avon 8/97, $23.00, hc) SF novel of a renegade from a far future where people can change the past, but have sworn to let it be -- until compassion drives one woman back to the horrors of Auschwitz.
	www.locusmag.com /1997/Books/SfNovels.html (2672 words)

	Encyclopedia: Science fiction in Croatia
		SFera is a science fiction society from Zagreb, Croatia.
		Aurora was a science fiction and fantasy society from Rijeka, Croatia.
		Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Science-fiction-in-Croatia (389 words)

	History of the AIs
		The most important event however was the birth of the first stable and long-lived archai; the first Archailect.
		This was GAIA, the Earth-based global blue-goo shield, who is variously referred to as the first high level AI, the first Caretaker God, and the first Archailect.
		Following the chaos of the nanoswarm dark age, a number of nanotech-evolved AIs resurrected new civilizations, bringing an end to the widespread despair and the dark ages.
	www.orionsarm.com /historical/AI-history.html (2475 words)

	Foundations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gaia Fund is a San Francisco-based family foundation that began awarding charitable grants in 1995.
		Gaia Fund does not consider requests for environmental education programs targeted to children.
		The Fund is also interested in national and international projects that address the environment, population issues, democracy and civil society and violence prevention.
	www.elizabethu.com /Foundations.html (2464 words)

	The Jurassica Institute of Paleoregeneration
		One also requires the associated animals and plants as food, and enough numbers and space for a viable breeding colony (this was discovered by deep simulation to be only 125 square kilometers in the case of the solitary but aggressively territorial Cynognathus, but more than 2 million square kilometers for the migratory Rhamphorhynchus!).
		With the end of the old Federation of Worlds and the rise of its replacement, the Solar Organisation, there was a change in Gaia's attitude as well.
		By the Second Federation period the Jurassica Institute was an important scientific and ideological center, dedicated to the resurrecting of the history of Phanerozoic life on Earth.
	www.orionsarm.com /civ/Jurassica_Institute.html (629 words)

	Feminist SF Postings Archive 1
		As for the distinction between "hard sf" and "soft sf", I don't believe there is any reason to categorize science fiction as either.
		Bedap is a harsh critic of the society he sees around him, and his questioning of conventional wisdom literally rocks Shevek's world.
		This aspect of Mattapoisett society goes hand in hand with their belief that learning and play should continue throughout life and not stop at adolescence.
	therem.net /femsf1.htm (9581 words)

	ORBzine - 1999.04 Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is a definitely refreshing change to find a SF society cast as a going concern- however unpleasantly for those within- and fully rounded out, and then questioned and elaborated by the meat of the story, rather than simply and somewhat childishly built around it's problems.
		This...it was either Benford or Baxter who said in one TV interview that their purpose for writing SF was to warn us against technology; you can certainly disagree if you want to, and I do, but they have their reasons, and the least we can do is read and enjoy what comes out of that.
		The society of the end of time is careless about children, on the whole - Jherek was the first for a long time, and at the beginning of the book we find him in bed with his mother- but there is a paternity related plot, in connection with the imminent demise of the cosmos.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /speculator/zine/9904bkre.htm (7276 words)

	Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing: Psychedelic Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With their aid, he should be able to adapt himself selectively to his culture, rejecting its evils, stupidities and irrelevances, gratefully accepting all its treasures of accumulated knowledge, of rationality, human-heartedness and practical wisdom.
		Psychedelics have been a part—often a central and sacred part—of most societies throughout history, and for half a century psychedelics have rumbled through the Western world, seeding a subculture, titillating the media, fascinating youth, terrifying parents, enraging politicians, and intriguing researchers.
		Gaia Media -- headed by Dieter Hagenbach -- is the group organizing the International Symposium to be Held on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann" to be held in Basel, Switzerland on January 13-15th, 2006.
	www.bruceeisner.com /new_culture/psychedelic_research (7750 words)

	Donna Haraway_The Promises of Monsters
		To tell this story we must disbelieve in both nature and society and resist their associated imperatives to represent, to reflect, to echo, to act as a ventriloquist for "the other." The main point is there will be no Adam-and no Jane-who gets to name all the beings in the garden.
		Most of the SF I like motivates me to engage actively with images, plots, figures, devices, linguistic moves, in short, with worlds, not so much to make them come out "right," as to make them move "differently." These worlds motivate me to test their virtue, to see if their articulations work-and what they work for.
		Because SF makes identification with a principal character, comfort within the patently constructed world, or a relaxed attitude toward language, especially risky reading strategies, the reader is likely to be more generous and more suspicious-both generous and suspicious, exactly the receptive posture I seek in political semiosis generally.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/Haraway/monsters.html (18439 words)

	Locus: New and Recommended Books, Jul 1997
		The Gaia Websters, Kim Antieau (Roc 6/97, $12.95, tp) SF novel of post-industrial society in the future Arizona Territory, one woman's strange abilities and nightmares, and a potentially disastrous epidemic with links to the terrible past.
		Voyages by Starlight, Ian R. MacLeod (Arkham House 6/97, $21.95, hc) Collection of 10 SF and fantasy stories by a notable new author, each distinctive, and mostly about people trapped by their obsessions.
		Faraday's Orphans, N. Lee Wood (Ace 6/97, $13.00, tp) SF novel of a post-disaster 23rd century in the ruins of Philadelphia and beyond, in territories with elements of myth, featuring a vividly memorable heroine alongside the restless hero.
	www.locusmag.com /1997/Issues/07/RecBooks.html (760 words)

	A Womb With A View: Women in SF
		In any case, it is probably fair to suggest that SF and religion/mythology share the same origins and arise out of the same quest for knowledge, in much the same way that astronomy and astrology share the same roots.
		All of these authors were male and wrote stories which reflected their societies: males were the protagonists, and women (if they featured at all) tended to stay on the sidelines as wives and servants (with an occasional foray into being a villain or evil temptation for the virtuous men).
		It was probably around this time that SF and fantasy began to clearly diverge — as science began to replace religion as a dominant force in society, SF began to delve into more scientific discourse, whereas fantasy retained its mystical elements.
	www.spacedoutinc.org /DU-17/WomenInSF.html (4960 words)

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		Intricate ecological matrix is shared by dreaming, right-brained natives to whom the Marines teach the meaning of murder.
		Utopia in the tradition of Looking Backward which imagines the secession of the West Coast from the rest of the United States and the establishment of a neo-hippy society based on communal ideals of property sharing and harmony with natural processes.
		Adventures on a wheel shaped world genetically engineered by a goddess, Gaia, who tailors species to replace technological mechanisms.
	virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/sfclass/groups/ecosfbib.htm (805 words)

	Forward and Backward with the Foundation
		But their status is moot anyway: they're trumped twice in the course of the two novels, first by Gaia and then by the robots.
		The first section also treats what surprisingly little sf is about: the process of academic discovery-- library searches, conferences, the legal status of universities, the frustrations of blocked research, of venturing outside one's field.
		The great narrative challenge in sf is to manufacture suspense and adventure in worlds which are completely malleable to the author's will and where, therefore, obstacles and adventures may seem completely manufactured.
	www.zompist.com /asimov.htm (6215 words)

	Span number 36 Postcolonial Fictions: McKie
		This is Gaia, if you must have a name for the habitation of Nexus.
		For, if Jameson's cultural cartography for the age is to be achieved, then I contend that significant bearings have to be taken from ecological features and something akin to Gaia has to form part of the map-making process.
		In addition Earth intensifies Jones' metaphor of postcolonialism as "disintegrating cage" by expanding her second postcolonial issue, "the role of ethnography in cultural understanding," to include the role of zoology with extended considerations of conservation arks, genetic engineering and late Darwinianism debates on cooperation verses competition.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/McKie.html (2673 words)

	Emerald City - #22
		Despite all the advances of modern feminism, girls are still discouraged from studying science at school and women scientists still have to be far cleverer than their male counterparts in order to achieve acclaim.
		Part of this, of course, is because Western society is still infected with the Aristolean meme that women are incapable of scientific thought.
		All of the ingredients are there: the badly drawn map, the glossary of funny words, the pan-Celtic society, the dragons, the talking animals, the weak king ensorcelled by an evil witch.
	www.emcit.com /emcpr022.shtml (6187 words)

	The BBR Directory: October 1992
		The magazine of fantasy, SF and gothic romance with a more human feel is settling into its stride with fiction this issue from Remy de Gourmont, Tina Anghelatos, John Frizell and Devenick Clark.
		The prophet of science and SF is shown to be prophetic also in his views on the need for a poetry of SF.
		To mark Clarke's 75th birthday, this seminal article – the earliest known essay on the topic of SF poetry – is reprinted for the first time since its original fanzine appearance in 1938, together with a haunting poem of his own from the following year, "The Twilight of a Sun".
	www.bbr-online.com /directory/9210.shtml (8632 words)

	Terraforming Bibiliography
		Hudson, H.S., "A Space Parasol as a Countermeasure Against the Greenhouse Effect", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 44, 139-141, 1991.
		Friedmann, E. Imre, Hua, M. and Ocampo-Friedmann, R., "Terraforming Mars: Dissolution of Carbonate Rocks by Cyanobacteria", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 46, 291-292, 1993.
		McKay, Christopher P., and Stoker, Carol R., "Gaia and Life on Mars," in Schneider, S.H. and Boston, P.J. (eds), Scientists on Gaia, pp.
	spot.colorado.edu /~marscase/cfm/terrabib.html (2950 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An anthropological study of a fictional culture--one that corresponds to life as it could be and perhaps should be.
		Gaia speaks through a computer at a Tibetan monastery to enlighten an ecologist to Her fate, and his mission.
		Brilliant novel of group marriage and religion in a SF cannibal society.
	www.caw.org /biblio/biblio.txt (5834 words)

	The Early Days of a Better Nation
		Imagine if the left had taken the most hostile caricatures of what socialism was and what being a socialist meant, and proceeded to live up to them.
		If the first episode is anything to go by it has gained in strangeness with the passing of time.
		It combines conspiracy theory with the Gaia hypotheses and strange but (when you think about them, and some moments take some thinking about) believable reactions to bereavement.The recent past the series recreates is already another country.
	kenmacleod.blogspot.com /2003_07_01_kenmacleod_archive.html (1178 words)

	International Communities Semester (fwd)
		GAIN skills and inspiration for creating sustainable career directions, life-long courses of learning, and an ecological identity, joining self, society, and nature in an enduring, harmonious "commons of the Earth." Communities visited include: THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION, Scotland: 2-week program in sustainable community living.
		AUROVILLE, India: 4-5 weeks of studies, cross-cultural explorations, and service work in an intentional community of 1,000 people from 33 nations, founded in 1968, whose goal is "to realize human unity." DERBYSHIRE FARM, New Hampshire: 2 weeks orientation and 3 concluding weeks of synthesis, portfolio completion, public presentations, field trips, evaluation, and closing celebration.
		It is based on Derbyshire Farm, a beautiful hill farm and wilderness site in southern NH and future site of an educational eco-village that Geocommons students are helping to design.
	www.ibiblio.org /InterGarden/permaculture/mailarchives/2/msg00173.html (443 words)

	The Path is a Network
		As David Noble has shown, the Western image of technological progress draws from profoundly Christian notions of dominion and millennialist perfectionism.
		The errant knight has morphed into a machine-man, his grail now the Singularity that SF writers and visionary engineers claim lies just over the horizon, a blazing point of technological convergence that will finally master the rules of the known.
		If the relentless vector of technological development embodies a heroic narrative of power, mastery, and self-definition, what does it mean that this ultimately phallic quest now finds itself in a chaotic postmodern techno-jungle characterized by the massive and impossibly tangled intersection of networks?
	www.techgnosis.com /techgnosis/tgpath.html (491 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: Kiln People (sample chapters)
		I do need to make one correction, however; take a look at my fiction errata page.
		A woman turned around, caught sight of me lurching toward her from the dark, and let out a yelp -- as if I were some horrible undead creature, risen from the deep.
		society and communication an opinionated world paying forward real science
	www.davidbrin.com /kilnpeoplesample2.html (2392 words)

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