Monday link dump: worldbuilding quotes, Millenicon karaoke pictures

Jonathan Rock quotes me, Jim Hines, Cat Rambo and Merri Haskell about worldbuilding on his blog.

Alethea Kontis has pictures up from this weekend’s Confluence Millenicon, as does Hugh Staples.

Joe Sherry wonders about the inclusion of the island Anegada in the story Mitigation in Fast Forward 2 written by me and Karl Schroeder, and how it connects to New Anegada, the world in Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose.

Anegada is one of the British Virgin Islands, an atoll coral island that is so flat you can see the palm trees on it before you see the island itself on approach.

As a result, with the highest point being 28 feet over sea level, it’s vulnerable to rising ocean levels.

I’ve always loved the name, so I created New Anegada (Nanagada) for the novels. In the short story Mitigation, the main character grew up on the real Anegada, which we posited would fall victim to rising ocean levels.

Today there pacific atolls that are planning how to evacuate their populations due to rising water levels and relocate their (albeit tiny) countries, which is wild to think about.

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