Thanks for the pingback and the vote of support.

Re. courage: you’re right, maybe I should mention that more clearly. For most SF writers writing about the near future is already a huge challenge, then writing optimistic SF is a similarly huge challenge (it’s like trying two impossible things at the same time, as Jason Stoddard noted), so I figured that it takes courage to take this on was, well, almost automatically implied.

And it certainly bears repeating that (fictional) characters that take on huge challenges need courage. Lots of it.

Thanks for the support!

The Elevator to Space takes one thing not on your list, though – Courage. I like that your anthology will promote this sort of positive vision of the future. It is easy to end a story with “bang, they dropped the bomb and everybody dies”. It is much harder to write one that ends “and they lived happily every after.”

Thanks. Take care. mjl