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IRIDIUM DREAMS is a complex story that works on many levels. This received some good press from the reviewers and was given an honorable mention in Dozois's YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION - 1994. I combined information from NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and TIME magazine articles to provide the details of the story. There were about six drafts before it was submitted, and two thereafter. I even made a few revisions on the galley proofs!
This was composed with a Hypercard scene development stack I created to allow me to shift scenes and text around. After I was satisfied with the sequence of the basic plot, I went to word processing and smoothed the text.
The working title for this piece was A JURASSIC LUCY, but was changed due to the appearance of the movie, Jurrasic Park.