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Cobalt City Neighborhoods

2011 was the Year of the City. Part of that was a tour through Cobalt City, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a series of original short stories we called our Neighborhoods Project.
- Parkside: “Location, Location, Location!” by Rosemary Jones (PDF download)
- Karlsburg: “Swordsaint of Karlsburg” by Jeremy Zimmerman (PDF download)
- Regency Heights: “Old Roots from a Sinister Vine” by Nathan Crowder (PDF download)
Previews
- The first three chapters of each novella in Cobalt City Rookies (PDF download)
- From Cobalt City Timeslip “The War at Home” by Nathan Crowder (PDF download) previously published in Cobalt City Timeslip.
- Excerpt from “The Place Between” from Cobalt City Double Feature by Minerva Zimmerman (PDF download)
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Cobalt City Biopunk Fiction

We are pleased to present “Tomorrow’s Harvest” by Nikki Burns. Originally written for Cobalt City Timeslip, we realized that this story formed a perfect thematic bridge from Timeslip to Growing Dread: Biopunk Visions.

Nikki Burns has previously appeared in Cobalt City Christmas with her story ‘Home for Christmas.’ An emerging talent and long-time fan of the Cobalt City universe, Nikki is a Seattle area native. She has a strong affinity for nature, leading us to believe that she may, in fact, be a Druid.
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- science-junkie:
  
  Electronic chips self-heal after laser blast
  
  It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), for the first time ever, has developed just such self-healing integrated chips.
  
  The team demonstrated this self-healing capability in tiny power amplifiers. The amplifiers are so small that 76 of the chips—including everything they need to self-heal—could fit on a single penny.
  
  In perhaps the most dramatic of their experiments, the team destroyed various parts of their chips by zapping them multiple times with a high-power laser, and then observed as the chips automatically developed a work-around in less than a second.
  
  “It was incredible the first time the system kicked in and healed itself. It felt like we were witnessing the next step in the evolution of integrated circuits,” says Ali Hajimiri, professor of electrical engineering. “We had literally just blasted half the amplifier and vaporized many of its components, such as transistors, and it was able to recover to nearly its ideal performance.
  
  The team’s results appear in the March issue of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
  
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- These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
  Gilbert Highet (via writingweasels)
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  Nathan Fillion on the joys of reading.
  
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  Our thanks to fellow book lovers at Feiwel & Friends for sharing such a great quote. Bonus points that the great quote is from Nathan Fillion!
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- Bacon. Science. Fiction?
  
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  Scientists grow bacon from stem cells
  
  A new technique that turns pig stem cells into strips of meat could offer a green alternative to the slaughterhouse and help end hunger.
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  Water balloon popped in zero gravity
- Wise.
- Superhero anthology seeking your stories
  Got fiction or nonfiction superhero stories? Submit them to Timid Pirate! Working with Aaron Dietz, this 2013 superhero anthology e-book will have real life and fictional stories about superheroes.
  
  Word docs only, 2,000 words or less. If selected, authors will need to provide a bio and a contract.
- Making the world a little more super.
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