![]() ![]() If they were injured or died, well, too bad. I decided to let the convicts face the unknown dangers of life on alien worlds: the hostile animals, poisonous plants, and whatever other weirdnesses a strange ecosystem threw their way. ![]() Australia, a long-running success, began as an extension of Britain’s prisons-a dumping ground for debtors, revolutionaries, and other undesirables. The first installment of the Making Amends series to appear was “Deep End.” In 2003, Nalo Hopkinson asked me to send her an anti-colonial science fiction story for her 2004 anthology So Long Been Dreaming, and my mind kept turning to historical examples of how empires had spread themselves. Making Amends is my series of short stories about a corporate government trying to put this idea into action, and the idea’s lovely and unforeseen consequences. Starting an interstellar penal colony could be an extremely practical idea, right? It could even provide a sponsoring corporation a good return on investment-though of course the initial investment would be massive. ![]()
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