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Alex White


Born
in The United States
November 04, 1981

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Science Fiction


Alex White was born and raised in the American south. He takes photos, writes music and spends hours on YouTube watching other people blacksmith. He values challenging and subversive writing, but will settle for a good time.

In the shadow of rockets in Huntsville, Alabama, Alex lives and works as an experience designer with his spouse, son, two dogs and a cat named Grim. Favored past times include Legos and racecars. He takes his whiskey neat and his espresso black.

Alex is the author of THE SALVAGERS book series (Orbit, 2018), a magical space opera treasure hunt, ALIEN: THE COLD FORGE (Titan, 2018)(yes, THAT Alien), and EVERY MOUNTAIN MADE LOW (Solaris, 2016), a dystopian Southern American yarn.

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Modularism – A Process for Your Process

Frameworks save time.

No matter what industry you’re in, frameworks abound. In manufacturing, they have systems like Lean and Six Sigma. In software design, they use Agile Scrum, and there are about a billion quality assurance processes. In fiction, there are popular models like Save the Cat and StoryGrid. (I’m going to mention The Heroine’s Journey here, because you really should check it out.)

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“Everyone can be sick in their soul and still think they’re the good guys.”
― Alex White, A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy
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“Individual humans cannot factor into the goals of a great society.” “And societies are only great when they care about individuals,”
― Alex White, The Worst of All Possible Worlds
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“She sighed. "how can I care about racing when I just helped determine the fate of worlds? I just...can't anymore."

"You're going to get killed."

She looked across at him, stars in her eyes.

"But what a grand way to die.”
― Alex White
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Polls

1st Quarter 2023 - Science Fiction #1

 
  5 votes, 31.3%

Lark Ascending by Silas House (288 pages)
 
  4 votes, 25.0%

Neom by Lavie Tidhar (256 pages)
 
  2 votes, 12.5%

Leech by Hiron Ennes (323 pages)
 
  2 votes, 12.5%

 
  1 vote, 6.3%

 
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