Comments on: Playing Our Way To the Future: Consumer Science and Technology goes Military http://futurismic.com/2010/02/10/playing-our-way-to-the-future-consumer-science-and-technology-goes-military/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brenda Cooper http://futurismic.com/2010/02/10/playing-our-way-to-the-future-consumer-science-and-technology-goes-military/comment-page-1/#comment-74540 Brenda Cooper Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:46:43 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=10419#comment-74540 Thanks Jo and Jetse. Riding in Mexico is fairly close -- I agree. I just try not to point to my own work too much here! Thanks Jo and Jetse. Riding in Mexico is fairly close — I agree. I just try not to point to my own work too much here!

]]> By: Jetse http://futurismic.com/2010/02/10/playing-our-way-to-the-future-consumer-science-and-technology-goes-military/comment-page-1/#comment-74383 Jetse Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:36 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=10419#comment-74383 Near-future military SF: try Carlos Hernandez's <a href="http://daybreakmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/daybreak-fiction-fembot/" rel="nofollow">Fembot</a> at DayBreak Magazine (which is basically a kind of follow-up to "Homeostasis" published here on Futurismic last July). Your own "Riding in Mexico" comes close (about civilian technology flowing into 'military' -- or at least police force -- use), even if the protagonist wants to join the Diplomatic Corps. Near-future military SF: try Carlos Hernandez’s Fembot at DayBreak Magazine (which is basically a kind of follow-up to “Homeostasis” published here on Futurismic last July).

Your own “Riding in Mexico” comes close (about civilian technology flowing into ‘military’ — or at least police force — use), even if the protagonist wants to join the Diplomatic Corps.

]]> By: Jo Thomas http://futurismic.com/2010/02/10/playing-our-way-to-the-future-consumer-science-and-technology-goes-military/comment-page-1/#comment-74342 Jo Thomas Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:34:57 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=10419#comment-74342 I enjoy Elizabeth Moon's Serrano Legacy series. It was written in the 1990s and is set an unspecified distance away in the future but I suspect it's in the range of 5 or 6 centuries. I enjoy Elizabeth Moon’s Serrano Legacy series. It was written in the 1990s and is set an unspecified distance away in the future but I suspect it’s in the range of 5 or 6 centuries.

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