Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

HUMANS ARE NOT MERELY UNITS OF PRODUCTION:  It’s Not Logical.

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE:  I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!

Alice is the Imperial Princess Regnant of the Galactic Empire. At 22, she has been thrust into power after her father (the Emperor) and her two older brothers have all died in various ways. Her Imperial Chancellor, Lord Rupert, does everything he can to support her, but has somewhat different ideas about how the Empire should be run than did his late Emperor.

Alice has one major problem: She cannot be crowned Empress Regnant until she marries and produces an heir.

But Alice, being kept busy three days a week by interminable audiences with petitioners, and the rest of the week with what she terms “mostly busy work”, has no real way to meet young men — well, reasonably eligible young men, anyway, and of her own age — with whom she might eventually take up and form a household. And she chafes at the necessity of trying to rule, hands-on, an Empire so huge it cannot be truly ruled by any one person to begin with.

She just wants to leave people alone, as her father and his predecessors did for centuries.

Then, into her life walks the Crown Prince of a planet many, many parsecs away from the Capital Planet…and her life begins to take on a life of its own…

THOSE IDEAS DEPEND ON GOVERNMENT, SO YOU’RE MAKING OTHER PEOPLE PAY FOR THEM:  Motherhood Is Not Rational. And some ideas to improve it.

While I understand society needs kids… can we just facilitate allowing as many people as possible to work from home? Because that’s how I managed to be a working stay-at-home mom. And how my mother managed it. And my grandmother managed. And now tech allows us to have a whole lot of women (though of course, not all) work from home, if middle-management will only allow it.