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Rocky’s Advantage: Interspecies Cooperation Under Existential Threat in Project Hail Mary, Tested Against the Historical Record

Posted on July 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Question and Why the Novel Is Worth Interrogating Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (2021) is usually read as competence fiction: a problem-solving narrative in the tradition of The Martian, with the added charm of a nonhuman collaborator. But … Continue reading →

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Pirates, Privateers, and the Contested Gulf: Maritime Predation off Tampa Bay (1700s–1820s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines maritime predation in the Gulf waters off Tampa Bay across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and it does so with a deliberate methodological aim: to separate what the documentary record supports from what later civic … Continue reading →

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White Paper II — A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and the Novella Cycle: The Dunk and Egg Stories as a Parallel Architecture

Posted on April 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines the Dunk and Egg novella cycle, collected in part as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, as the second major vector of fragmentation in A Song of Ice and Fire. Unlike the main sequence, which has … Continue reading →

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Governing a Covenant People: Editor’s Introduction

Posted on April 5, 2026 by nathanalbright

Professor Douglas Hartwell Chair, Department of Law and Covenant Studies Provincial College of Porterville Year 3015 I should begin, as any honest editor must, with a confession about this book’s origins. The First Porterville Symposium on Bravian Law and Public … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty-Five: From Lysander Smith to Elizabeth Smith

Posted on November 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

15 September 3015 My Dearest Mother, I write to you following a week of extraordinary events that have given me much to reflect upon and much to share with you. The Feast of Trumpets—one of Bravia’s most important religious observances—has … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty-Four: From Leonidas Smith to the Foreign Minister

Posted on November 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

15 September 3015 Your Excellency, I write to provide you with a detailed report on significant developments in Bravia that have occurred over the past week and that have substantial implications for our nation’s interests and for regional security dynamics. … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty-Three: From Leonidas Smith to Elizabeth Smith

Posted on November 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

15 September 3015 My Dear Sister Elizabeth, I write to you following events of the past week that have significant implications for our understanding of Bravian intentions and for our assessment of the regional balance of power. The Feast of … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty-Two: From Elizabeth Smith to Lysander Smith

Posted on November 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

20 August 3015 My Dearest Lysander, I write to you with news from home that I wish I did not have to share, but that you must know about if you are to understand the political situation here and how … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty-One: From Elizabeth Smith to Leonidas Smith

Posted on November 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

20 August 3015 My Dear Brother Leonidas, I write to you with urgent news that has developed over the past week and that has significant implications for our nation’s security and for the political situation at court. The border between … Continue reading →

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Letter Twenty: From Leonidas Smith to The Foreign Minister

Posted on November 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

6 August 3015 Your Excellency, I have the honor to report that Attaché Lysander Smith has arrived safely at the embassy and has successfully participated in the installation ceremony for our diplomatic mission to Bravia. I provide here my assessment … Continue reading →

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