Permanence

My pal and sometime-co-author Karl Schroeder's new novel, "Permanence" is finally out.

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Permanence is Karl's second novel, and it's brilliant -- at its core is a massive, hard-sf conceit: that because tool-use expends more energy than adaptation (i.e., when confronted with a marsh, it's easier to be a marsh-bird than to figure out how to drain it), that over time, all the races of the universe will use genetic engineering to adapt themselves to their habitats and so become nonsentient.

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This month's Locus magazine features Charlie Stross Brown's interview with Karl Schroeder, the author of such brilliant sf novels as "Permanence" and "Ventus."

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(For a fantastic and creepy take on Santa Claus, check out The Claus Effect, a novel by my pals Karl "Permanence" Schroeder and Dave "Edgar Award" Nickle)

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"Permanence" (fifth of the last section of "Past and Present"), which sums what is known, and foreshadows, or rather forelights, all that is to be learned of National Discipline.

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Always a beloved teacher and mentor, his classes and books like Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism brought his provocative, accessible style of thinking and writing about race in America and the law to a wide audience.

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Always a beloved teacher and mentor, his classes and books like Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism brought his provocative, accessible style of thinking and writing about race in America and the law to a wide audience.

Marian Wright Edelman: Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others Marian Wright Edelman 2012

Always a beloved teacher and mentor, his classes and books like Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism brought his provocative, accessible style of thinking and writing about race in America and the law to a wide audience.

Marian Wright Edelman: Derrick Bell: Changing the Odds for Others Marian Wright Edelman 2012

Karl Schroeder's first science fiction novel Ventus was declared a New York Times Notable book in 2001, and his second novel, Permanence, won the 2003 Aurora Award for best Canadian Science Fiction Novel.

March 2010 2010

Having wracked his brains to be innovative in the novels Ventus, Permanence, and Lady of Mazes, Karl Schroeder decided to relax for a while and write pirate stories, starting with Sun of Suns and continuing with Queen of Candesce, Pirate Sun, and The Sunless Counries.

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