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Olga Werby's books on Goodreads
Becoming Animals Becoming Animals
reviews: 13
ratings: 15 (avg rating 4.60)

The FATOFF Conspiracy The FATOFF Conspiracy
reviews: 6
ratings: 18 (avg rating 3.50)

Harvest Harvest
reviews: 11
ratings: 18 (avg rating 4.50)

Suddenly, Paris Suddenly, Paris (Many Worlds, One Life #1)
reviews: 6
ratings: 8 (avg rating 4.00)

Twin Time Twin Time
reviews: 4
ratings: 5 (avg rating 4.40)

SciFi Bites: A collection of short stories.

Pipsqueak Articles, sci-fi bites, short story

Time travel, Hitler, and killing babies–a short audio story

by Olga Werby February 27, 2020

Kill Hitler

What if you could go back in time and kill Hitler? This is a premise of many science fiction stories. Here’s my version:

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Cultural Differences, My Books, sci-fi bites, short story

Time Travel Suicide Therapy

by Olga Werby July 14, 2019

Cleopatra's Death

“Can I help you?” Dax stood up and quickly covered the screen with his body. It was five minutes to closing time and he wasn’t interested in helping on yet another bored teenager, or house partner, or grandpa, or history student, or whatever to fulfill their sick time travel dream.…

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sci-fi bites, short story

Shifting Sands

by Olga Werby June 11, 2019

Shifting Sands

The wind howled northward, as normal for this time of the year. The angle of planetary spin resulted in a decreased amount of sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere during this portion of the orbit cycle. The atmosphere precipitated onto the surface as ammonia and water snow, lowering the air pressure,…

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sci-fi bites, short story

Word Magic, narrated by Mariah Avix of 600 Second Saga

by Olga Werby August 2, 2018

cool word

Word Magic is a short story prequel to a larger piece of fiction I’m working on about language and its power to shape the world. I love Mariah’s work — she brings magic to my stories and to those of other writers. Please visit her site and subscribe to her…

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Cultural Bias, Group Decision Errors, My Books, sci-fi bites, short story

600 Second Saga: The Perfect Gene

by Olga Werby January 3, 2018

The Perfect Gene

“The Perfect Gene” — a short story about cultural biases narrated by Mariah Avix, 600 Second Saga Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy, found at http://insani-x.com/ Read along with the audio story.

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My Books, sci-fi bites, short story

600 Second Saga: The Test

by Olga Werby October 4, 2017

The Test

It was beside me on the bed when I woke up — the little bag to pack my most cherished belongings before leaving to take the test. Our dorm has eight living in one great room and none of us heard anything in the night. No one ever does. This…

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Cultural Differences, My Books, Pipsqueak Articles, sci-fi bites, short story

Another Wave of Refugees

by Olga Werby October 3, 2017

Refugees

“Another wave of refugees is arriving,” the TV news announcer said in a grave voice. George Tiggleson, the news anchor for XWTZ Christian Voice of Americas, has been practicing this voice — deep, resonant, with a slight lamenting quality — for almost twenty years. This voice got him this job.…

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Cultural Differences, Pipsqueak Articles, Product Design Strategy, Reference, Scaffolding, Users

Generation C, a Sample User Persona

by Olga Werby June 15, 2011

Here’s an Booz & Company article by Roman Friedrich, Michael Peterson, Alex Koster, and Sebastian Blum: “The Rise of Generation C Implications for the World of 2020.” [contact information for the authors is available inside the PDF]

The Rise of Generation C

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Vaguely Familiar

by Olga Werby April 14, 2020

2020 Corona Heart

The oddness of invisible threat is very unsettling but oddly familiar. If we think back on our lives, we all had periods of time when we were forced into isolation. I can personally think of several. I will list them chronologically. I was five years old when I noticed a…

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Attention, My Books, Newsletter, Perception, Pipsqueak Articles

Living with Anxiety

by Olga Werby March 25, 2020

Gigs canceled

We are week two into isolation, living in a social distancing dystopia. Everything is strange. Our eating and sleeping habits, our daily routines, our physical workouts, and our work and school schedules and setups are all completely disrupted. It feels like we are living in wartime, and yet it’s Spring…

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Book, My Books, Newsletter, Pipsqueak Articles

Stories in the Age of Pandemic

by Olga Werby March 11, 2020

Mistress of the Mirror

I moved from New York to California in 1989, the year the Bay Bridge collapsed due to a powerful earthquake, the year all those people died, the year I was run over by a car while crossing the street, the year I was supposed to have gotten married but learned…

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Pipsqueak Articles, sci-fi bites, short story

Time travel, Hitler, and killing babies–a short audio story

by Olga Werby February 27, 2020

Kill Hitler

What if you could go back in time and kill Hitler? This is a premise of many science fiction stories. Here’s my version:

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book promotion, Cognitive Blindness, Cultural Bias, Cultural Differences, Mental Model Traps, Pipsqueak Articles, Users

Love in the Virtual Worlds

by Olga Werby February 13, 2020

If men were portrayed as women

Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of this special holiday, I wanted to say something about love and women’s power. My first novel was “Suddenly, Paris” — a story of true love in many worlds. I wanted to write a science fiction romance. But not a gooey mush of a thing, but…

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book promotion, Newsletter, Pipsqueak Articles

Cool books, peril loops, tech talk, and other sci-fi reading traps

by Olga Werby January 10, 2020

Paris in the future from 1905

Rock? Or classical? Sometimes, good content is difficult to classify. But once you find someone good, it almost always works out (well, except for the last chord–what happened there?). I’ve mentioned before–when I find an author I like, I read everything they’ve ever written. This works for music, too. It’s…

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Book, Ethnographic & User Data, Pipsqueak Articles, Reference

Ice Music

by Olga Werby December 15, 2019

Coding Peter Suddenly Paris 2 Covers

I wish I had heard of Siberian Ice Drummers or the use of Lake Baikal ice as a musical instrument when I wrote the second book in the “Many Worlds, One Life” series: “Coding Peter”! If I had, it would have been featured prominently in my story. Alas, some discoveries…

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Attention Controls Errors, Book, Ethnographic & User Data, Language, Pipsqueak Articles

Fantastical Halloween

by Olga Werby October 16, 2019

Books are good for the Soul

We are quickly falling into Fall. Warm sweaters, blankets, and books. But why bother with books when there is so much other entertainment around? Netflicks, HBOs, Amazons of the world are eager to grab hold of our eyeballs and never let go. It’s great for their bottom line. In 2017,…

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Book, My Books, Pipsqueak Articles

Protagonist Speaks, a Police Interview with Alex Orlov

by Olga Werby September 18, 2019

Alex doing research

Sometimes, when we finish reading or writing a story, the story is not done with us. Some characters linger in our thoughts and speak up and give rise to some other content and revelations. Mostly, such content remains private — I have tons of illustration, pages of story, and folders…

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Book, book promotion, My Books, Pipsqueak Articles

Strange, Slightly Creepy, Mystery SciFi: My New Book is Out Today!

by Olga Werby September 15, 2019

Art by Sophie Prestigiacomo

The paperback version of “God of Small Affairs” is out everywhere (well, mostly in online stores) today! Here’s a link to “God of Small Affairs” on Amazon. In about two weeks, the ebook version will come out as well. The story already earned three 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite! You…

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Book, book promotion, My Books, Perception, Pipsqueak Articles

Summer Writing and Reading and Editing

by Olga Werby August 15, 2019

Girl Reading

Writing In July, I finally finished editing my latest book: God of Small Affairs (first three chapters are available here). It will be a while before it gets published, but it is nice to move into the next stage of this story’s life. I have a cover that I like…I…

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Background Knowledge, Background Knowledge Errors, book promotion, Cultural Bias, Cultural Differences, Newsletter, Pipsqueak Articles

Jew-ish Sci-Fi

by Olga Werby July 15, 2019

Jew-ish Universe

This month, I’ve jumped in head first into dark and cold waters of book marketing. I’ve learned a lot that was new to me but was probably obvious to any salesperson — other people (unlike me) like to read very specific genres of books. For example, if you are into…

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book promotion, Cultural Bias, Cultural Differences, Ethnographic & User Data, Language, Mirroring Errors, Newsletter, Pipsqueak Articles

Forty Years of Cultural Dissonance

by Olga Werby June 10, 2019

Pastrami Sandwich

This May was the fortieth anniversary of my family’s arrival in America. We came as refugees. My husband and I celebrated this momentous event (this marks over two-thirds of my life here) by visiting the Tenement Museum in downtown New York City. The biggest takeaway was the strong sense of…

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ICC Forum: Legal Debate

UCLA Human Rights and International Criminal Law Forum Logo

The International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor and UCLA School of Law partnered together to create ICC Forum—a place to discuss international criminal law issues. My company, Pipsqueak Productions, designed and developed the site. Please join the debate! ICCforum.com.

DRIPS Project

Tim and Nick Werby with DRIPS Prototypes

DRIPS project — stands for Deep Root Irrigation and Precipitation System — is a simple device that collects atmospheric water and delivers it to the roots of plants below the evaporation layer. My sons, Tim and Nick Werby, designed and developed the idea and the site. DRIPSproject.

Cost of Chicken

Cost of Chicken Project is a crowdmapping project that tracks the true costs of food around the world. Most data points are contributed by kids. My sons, Tim and Nick Werby, designed and developed the idea and the site. Please visit their site and contribute the data points from your area. Cost of Chicken.

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