Keep an eye on ‘Shine’ incase you ever do decide to go for publication in an anthology or something. They are looking for optimistic SF, and most people struggle to be optimistic, so there’s opportunities there!

Colum

But anyways, I agree SF needs it’s optimists, but it needs it’s pessimists too. Part of the reason SF is dying, is because people are insisting that ‘SF must be this’ and ‘SF must be that’. SF should be all things. It should scare the bejeezus out of us about what’s going to happen if the planet overheats on one hand, and show how we might avoid that fate on the other.

Given that you have listed a lot of inventive methods of avoiding some of the coming catastrophes here, shouldn’t you be writing? The ‘Shine’ anthology was crying out for this stuff, and there’s bound to be a ‘Shine II’.