A Better Earth and more

Here are four science fiction novels as well as two non-fiction books that I have written.

A Better Earth, Earth or Better? and Farther and Alien are the first, second, and third volumes of a trilogy that is called, for the moment, `The Utopians'. The other novel is called Never at Sea

The novels are science fiction. None of the technologies contradict what is already known and if scientific investigation and engineering continue, the more advanced technologies should become available within two generations. For example, specialized fast replicators have been built. These are von Neumann machines. Several have been constructed, but none have been general. No one has yet built a machine to assemble atoms.

I wish I had read the science fiction novels when I was thirteen or fourteen. My hoped for readers are 50 or 60 years old. They contain no sex and little explicit violence but many ideas.

The non-fiction books are shorter and written earlier. They are called Choice and Constraint and Software Freedom: An Introduction. The first is how we can and should act, both together and alone; the second is about software.

The books are each in six different forms: the inputs are the Texinfo sources and the outputs are in Info and in the hypertext markup language (HTML) for online viewing or listening. For printing or for viewing differently online the outputs include a device independent format (DVI), PostScript, and a portable document format (PDF). Each is available directly as a link.

(I can also output the books in LaTeX, RTF, DocBook, XML with a Texinfo DTD, and in plain text but expect less demand for those; please email me for any.)

A Better Earth

A Better Earth is set 20 to 40 years ahead of the present. We have a description of it. The novel shows several lives, success, failure, and a utopian response.

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.info

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.html

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.dvi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.ps

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/A_Better_Earth.pdf

Earth or Better

The second volume, Earth or Better? is set in the further future on Melior, `the better planet', and on Earth. We have a description of it. Through a character who comes from Earth, the novel illustrates the utopian society set up by those who fled; and through another character, it describes a distant Earth.

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.info

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.html

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.dvi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.ps

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Earth_or_Better.pdf

Farther and Alien

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.info

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.html

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.dvi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.ps

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Farther_and_Alien.pdf

Never at Sea

A completely different science fiction novel is set fifteen to twenty-five years in the future. It is called Never at Sea. We have a description of it, too.

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.info

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.html

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.dvi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.ps

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Never_at_Sea.pdf

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.info

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.html

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.dvi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.ps

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/On-Land.pdf

The two non-fiction works are Software Freedom: An Introduction. and Choice and Constraint

Software Freedom: An Introduction

Software Freedom: An Introduction is about the newly gained ease with which computer programs can be duplicated and information stored. We face new and different difficulties than in the past. These difficulties come from bad laws, false beliefs, and obsolete institutions.

In addition, the book tells how businesses can make a profit in the new environment. These `business models' have long history, although a century or more ago, they had nothing to do with software.

The files are:

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Software-Freedom.texi

http://www.rattlesnake.com/rjc/Software-Freedom.info

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