Of all people, children are some of the most amazing to work with. They have fresh minds, unconcerned with doing things the way they’ve always been done. They see only possibilities, and their imaginations are unbounded by life’s disappointments. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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There are many neutral powers on Earth and beyond. South America and her colonies are the largest of these. The province of strongman leadership, corruption, and civil wars for thousands of years, the continent was in some ways uniquely ready[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Europe had been watching us slide into war for decades. They saw it as a good thing, an end to a future threat. They stockpiled years’ worth of cotton and when The South seceded, they could survive the loss of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ship cats are different from other cats. They are just as intelligent and just as self-centered as other uplifted cats, but they seem to have a deeper need to join our world. They enjoy being with us, enjoy working with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran spent a century helping us learn to build better gravtech. We ran through what must have been thousands of years of technology in a mere century. We created new worlds with it, both physical and virtual, and many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Slave States saw the coming Republican majorities in the House and Senate as a threat to their way of life. They feared an outright abolition of Slavery, and the European branches of my family jumped on that fear. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite the differences, uplifted cats are hard to separate from normal cats. On the one hand, they don’t herd well. On the other, they blend in real good. And on the other hand (you counting hands yet?) they do not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Peloran don’t actually give us much of anything. I know the common history is that they came and gave us a new generation of technology. Gravtech is the common name. I’m an example of that. The truth is that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The question of Slavery became too polarizing in the election of 1860, with extremists on either side of the Slave issue leading the charge. The Republicans ran a Free State campaign, the Democrats split into two parties over degrees of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One thing that a lot of people don’t know is that all uplifted cats are descended from the Hemingway Cats. They were considered the smartest and most adaptable of their kind, and the original gengineers spliced a lot of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…