http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/polarity http://io9.com/tag/polarity If you want to play along with science fiction writer MCM as he livewrites his new novel, visit the spot where he's doing it online and give him feedback - all weekend! More »
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Last week, scifi creator and livewriting maniac MCM asked io9 readers to come up with a few plot points for his new novel, by giving him news stories from September 2038. Here are the winning entries! More »
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Science fiction author and livewriting fiend MCM is back with a new novel, Typhoon. He's livewriting a sequel at the end of November, and he wants your help. Suggest a futuristic news item, and go down in literary history! More »
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Forget the ozone layer, global warming, and all of the other things environmentalists whine about: the one thing holding life together here on Earth is its powerful magnetic field. And for the past 150 years that humans have been measuring it, our only line of defense against deadly cosmic and solar radiation has been mysteriously weakening. Now, new research says the situation is even more dire than we thought. Looking back 2,000 years into the past, geophysicists have calculated that the field's been weakening the entire time, and that we've got about 500 years to go before it's gone entirely. More »
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