Not that you’d know that from my posting frequency as of late. But no, aten’t dead.  Just more or less taken over by a large project in my Areas Of Work Other Than Writing, that has left me with precious little time and energy to be about my
There have been many battle-cries and war chants throughout history. Every legion has its own, indeed often several for different occasions, as do the House guards, most mercenary companies, and other military organizations great and small. Of all these, the most infamous are the Final Words of the destroyed Ninth
“…of stone originally dating back to the ninth century pre-Imperial. “The Merchancy Library: A little bit off the beaten track in a lower niche of Inisvaen’s Wind District (B Coster Court), the Merchancy Library houses one of the finest collections of antique tally-strings and slice-verified contracts dating back to
“Tell me about your experience of success in your career.” “Actually, I don’t have any memories of those times, although I’m told I was very successful in my work.” “You didn’t have any successes that were memorable?” “I was a missile guidance AI. I’m descended from
As it happens, my book and e-book aren’t on sale or otherwise specially discounted for Black Friday. But, y’know, they don’t cost all that much to start with, so why not go buy a copy anyway?
I made a book recommendation elsewhere today, concerning the problem of writing beings with senses or abilities or other things that we don’t have, and since for myself I think it’s a rather good recommendation, well, I’m going to make it here, too. Specifically, Inside of a
This year I’m planning to take part in the 2012 Conlang Card Exchange, in which participants from the conlang and conculture mailing lists I subscribe to exchange: “a card-sized, mailed, ordinary or concultural, written-in-a-conlang item such as: * a this-cultural greeting card in the conlang * a this-world postcard in the
So, yeah. Here’s how the legal system – well, the Empire’s legal system, anyway – copes with forking.  You are liable for all the crimes committed by you, or by the lineal fork-ancestors from which you descend.  So if you commit the crime first, and then fork, both of you
AIÖ (IMPERIAL CORE) — The Watch Constabulary announced today the capture of more instances of Werg yilKorin hinAnkar, estrev and sole member of the Shrouded Suns Selfdom, a criminal syndicate based out of the Sivrin Freeworlds, notorious for their ventures in blacknet operations, infojacking, reputation gaming, identity fraud, loansharking, forknapping, brainspiking,
Electronic Telepathy: Specifically, the kind built into the eldrae and galari (although with different encodings, originally), and put on general sale by a number of corporations. See Psychic Powers.
Arkuel Múras: Where’s next on the agenda? Ethly 0x4414CC2B: Freylis. Fourth planet of Ardylis in the Dark Sea, two moons, oxy-nitro-water garden world with a levo-protein, levo-lipid, dextro-carbohydrate, DNA-encoding ecology. And most interestingly, a former sophont civilization, or what’s left of it. Arkuel Múras: How former? Ethly 0x4414CC2B:
Electric Instant Gratification: Exists, in a variety of forms as unsubtle as classic “wireheading”, known as “electrobliss” – only much simpler to implement, since you can actually achieve it perfectly well with transcranial magnetic stimulation – or orgasmatronics through more subtle pleasures like slinkies with better-than-life emotional tracks, all the way up