Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 2: The Bio-Tech Era
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193648918X

Terran Shift Anthology, Volume 2: The Bio-Tech Era is the second collection of stories set exclusively in the Terran Shift universe. The collection contains seven science fiction stories from five authors, focusing entirely on stories set in the Bio-Tech Era, a plausible near-future where humanity becomes even more dependent on technology.

Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations

Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations
Author: Steven Inman
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489198

Miscreations are things that should not exist, but do. An event happens that transforms an entity into something so amazingly good or so horribly evil that you can't help but be fascinated by its existence. Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations contains twelve stories from the Greater Portland Scribists that explore these oddities. Errors in evolution. Discoveries in supposedly clean rooms. Extreme memory loss. Appliances that are a little too smart. Mythical beasts reborn. And one joke that went way too far.

Essential GPS

Essential GPS
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489236

The Greater Portland Scribists writing group first formed in July 2010 and published their first anthology the following June. Since then, they have been publishing an anthology every summer. After the publication of their fifth volume in 2015, they decided it would be fun to look back over the years and choose the best stories from each author. With the help of fans in autumn 2015, they have selected one story each from current and previous members. This collection is a great sampler of work spanning the years that we've been working together. Stories contained in this volume: - What Time Is Our Torture Session? by Lee Patterson (from Vol 1) - In the Business of Rotting by Cynthia Ravinski (from Vol 1) - Secret Under the Sand by Jamie Alan Belanger (from Vol 2: Lost Civilizations) - Otherkin by Steven Inman (from Vol 3: Metamorphosis) - Breed by Timothy Lynch (from Vol 4: Miscreations) - The Joke by Richard Veysey (from Vol 4: Miscreations) - Sand Fleas by D.L. Harvey (from Vol 5: Inversions) - Wolf and Raven by Shelli-Jo Pelletier (from Vol 5: Inversions) - Repurposed by Matthew Stephen D. (from Vol 5: Inversions) - Better Alive Than Dead by Robin Hansen (an all-new story exclusive to this volume)

The Scribings Omnibus

The Scribings Omnibus
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 1095
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489244

For the past five years, the Greater Portland Scribists writing group has been independently publishing their fiction in annual anthologies. This Omnibus edition combines almost every story we've published. Ten of our current and previous members have contributed a total of 44 stories to this collection. From our inaugural volume to this year's volume, Inversions, the stories contained in this Omnibus Edition span nearly every speculative fiction subgenre there is--fantasy, horror, science fiction, paranormal, and more. The Scribings Omnibus contains stories from the following volumes: - Scribings, Vol 1 - Scribings, Vol 2: Lost Civilizations * - Scribings, Vol 3: Metamorphosis - Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations - Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions * Christopher L. Weston's story from Lost Civilizations, Ordovicia, will remain exclusive to the original ebook

Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions

Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193648921X

Life is full of surprises. Sometimes changes upend everything we thought we knew, inverting our perceptions of the people and world around us. Part of the joy and terror of living lies in experiencing these inversions. Scribings, Vol 5: Inversions presents eight stories from the Greater Portland Scribists, each with its own hidden twists and surprises. A former rock star who can no longer sing. Escaped convicts with much to atone for. A strange boy with an affinity for plants. Gods watch mortals make a seemingly simple choice. Tiny shoe prints lead to a birthday adventure. A hostage tries to salvage a botched bank robbery. A soldier flees war only to find it follows. And a quest for a missing corporate department that may actually be hiding.

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1

Terran Shift Anthology, Vol 1
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489120

The Terran Shift Anthology, Volume 1, the first collection of stories set exclusively in the Terran Shift universe, contains seven science fiction stories from five authors set in all four eras -- from Bio-Tech dystopia to The Sol-Bect War era. This anthology includes The Sol-Bect Setup, the thrilling lost chapter in which Peter McCabe visits the past to lay the groundwork for his future.

Stolen Dreams

Stolen Dreams
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2020-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489295

It is the near future. Most people have a cranial implant for connecting directly to the Net, brain-first. When people die, all of their thoughts, hopes, dreams, and memories are extracted via this interface and encoded in the Soul Bank. Every person is stored indefinitely and made available for anyone to visit. Many partake of this opportunity to learn from the lives and mistakes of others. But the memories are just data stored in a computer system, and one day a hacker learns how to steal those memories. Implanting them into the brains of interested buyers is just as easy, and quite profitable. Meet Jeremiah Jones: visionary, entrepreneur, sociopath. Name your dream. Name your price.

Scribings, Vol 2: Lost Civilizations

Scribings, Vol 2: Lost Civilizations
Author: Jamie Alan Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489112

Journey into lands long lost with the Greater Portland Scribists. Delve into an Egyptian pyramid in a peculiar location. See what a Viking boy does when handed the executioner's ax. Find out why sometimes it's too late to learn from your mistakes. Watch a bookbinder as he achieves his dreams. See a civilization vanish through the eyes of a young girl. Scribings Vol 2: Lost Civilizations features eight exciting stories that will take you on a trip through time and space and even through the fabric of reality itself. Scribings Vol 2 features stories from trusted veterans Richard Veysey, Cynthia Ravinski, and Jamie Alan Belanger; as well as stories from new members Christopher L. Weston and Timothy Lynch.

The Sol-Bect War, Part 2

The Sol-Bect War, Part 2
Author: Paul J Belanger
Publisher: Lost Luggage Studios LLC
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936489082

The war against the Bect rages on. Humanity, after spending years reacting and retreating, is now on the offensive. The Bect show no sign of letting up on their assault, however, and begin to send larger forces against us. Our weapons and tactics may have improved, but our forces are beginning to dwindle. And the strange newcomer who showed us a path to victory, Peter McCabe, is Missing-In-Action and presumed dead. Can the human war machine complete what he started?

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art
Author: Joanna Page
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 178735976X

Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists’ kitchens. While they draw on recent scientific research, these art projects also ‘decolonize’ science. If increasing knowledge of the natural world has often gone hand-in-hand with our objectification and exploitation of it, the artists studied here emphasize the subjectivity and intelligence of other species, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human. They design technologies that work with organic processes to promote the health of ecosystems, and seek alternatives to the logics of extractivism and monoculture farming that have caused extensive ecological damage in Latin America. They develop do-it-yourself, open-source, commons-based practices for sharing creative and intellectual property. They establish critical dialogues between Western science and indigenous thought, reconnecting a disembedded, abstracted form of knowledge with the cultural, social, spiritual, and ethical spheres of experience from which it has often been excluded. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art interrogates how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. At the same time, it explores broader questions in the field of art, including the relationship between knowledge, care, and curation; nonhuman agency; art and utility; and changing approaches to participation. It also highlights important contributions by Latin American thinkers to themes of global significance, including the Anthropocene, climate change and environmental justice.