Cedar Writes

Tag: plague

  • Retrogression

    Retrogression

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    What do Environmentalists, JRR Tolkein, Luddites, and Progressives all have in common? The answer is both easy and complicated all at once. The core of it is fear, but the roots lie deeply embedded in the human psyche, all the way back to a time when something out of the ordinary in the environment surrounding…

  • Double-Edged Sword of the Apocalypse

    Double-Edged Sword of the Apocalypse

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    There are days that I can say and mean it from the bottom of my heart: science is scary. This is true on every day, of course, but it rarely impinges on my day-to-day reality. Kids, dogs, husband, work, writing… and then there are the science journals. The headline of this article caught my attention…

  • Jade Star Snippet 4

    Jade Star Snippet 4

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    The end draws nigh, and I am hoping to have this off to either beta readers or my editor by the end of the week. Not sure about the betas, since I hope to publish this collection – tentatively titled Twisted Mindflow – by the end of September. My First Reader is telling me that…

  • Before the Black Death

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    There was Justinian’s Plague. Blamed for, among other things, the fall of Rome, it devastated Europe in a time most of us know little about. I wrote a short (very short) paper on it for class, which I am sharing. Also, in an endeavour to get to know Photoshop better, I created a bit of…