On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Or, at least, to stop buying new books set in that version of our galaxy. I've been reading them since Honor Among Enemies was released in paperback. So...about twenty years now.

Mainly, if it happens, it's going to be due to what I'm reading second-hand of series author David Weber's apparent non-reaction to the Trumpist crowd now apparently dominating the online forum Baen's Bar as administered by Baen Books from several of you. I'm not expecting a happy reaction to whatever Mr. Weber's posted to Facebook about the matter when I see it for myself later tonight.

Which will be cause for some sadness. But it won't be the first time fictional characters proved (mostly) better people than their creator/designer/primary actor on-screen in recent memory. Will it?

More later, I suppose. One way or another.

Something else that Kevin "Galaxy Map" Jardine brought up recently: there's a "travelling salesperson lab" at University of Waterloo, and they took some of Kevin's work and played with it.

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1318092187972866048

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/index.html

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/about.html

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/gaia1_data.html

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/kj37859.html

It occurs to me that, despite the relative proximity of Beta Pic to Sol at 64 lightyears (barring updates from GAIA DR 2 or later), we're still not ever going to see any planets finish forming in our lifetimes. Nor that of our entire biosphere, probably.

The same goes for the protagonists of Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Expanse, Honor Harrington, the Legion of Super-Heroes, the 31st Century incarnations of the Guardians of the Galaxy, etc..

Here's what set off my thought:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=39109