
Down Syndrome character in Aerosol Sky
A diverse future is just one of the themes of The Shade Ring Trilogy. When I started doing research on future technologies, climate predictions and future cultural scenarios, I repeatedly ran across articles about how diverse the population will be in the United States by the end of this century. So my cast of characters includes quite a range of ethnicities – African-American, Mexican-American, Indian-American, American Indian, Korean-American, Chinese, Russian, multi-ethnic