Vignettes of the Star Empire...
…is also now available as a physical book, priced $6.99. Go here to buy it from Amazon.com, and it should also be available on the various other Amazons. Or for the Kindle edition, see here.
Alistair Young
Trope-a-Day: Easy Logistics
Easy Logistics: Averted, even with nanotech, cornucopias, and suchlike, because it’s not like they don’t still require supplies of feedstock and energy, not to mention being inefficient to use for bulk manufacturing of things like ammunition – which is not a good place to be if the other side
Cost of Breathing
LIMÉRI STATION HABITAT FEE ASSESSMENT LIMÉRI STATION HABCORP, ICC A PROTECTORATE OF BALANCE AND EXTERNALITY AFFILIATE RECIPIENTS Anlave-Kateris Household   – Anlave Claves-ith-Estenv  – Kateris Muetry-ith-Muiris ADDRESS OF RECORD 1-00003-01496-0223 Talentar LimĂ©ri Station DalecĂ 14, Avenue of Focative Mirrors PERIOD COVERED TĂlenmot, 3502 Charge (Es.) Base Habitat Fee eldrae x 2 74 Air
Trope-a-Day: Easily Detachable Robot Parts
Easily Detachable Robot Parts: The most common model, the ubiquitous utility spider (more like a spider-squid, really, but that’s more awkward to say) is designed with modular, swappable parts for extensibility purposes. There is a thriving aftermarket in add-on modules.
Memorable Words
One problem with the very long lifespans of the eldrae and, thus, the equally long institutional memory of the Empire, is that while it has preserved for posterity many of the great examples of rhetoric, like Alphas’s first Speech from the Throne, Olbria Amanyr’s fiery Senatorial style, or
An Opening
Not a fic-a-day – although I’m trying to get back to those now I’m almost done editing and publishing –  just the opening to something I’m working on… Her Divine Majesty’s Star Station EádĂnah’s Bower is built in hell, or as close to it as they could
Trope-a-Day: Earth Shattering Kaboom
Earth Shattering Kaboom: The Ulijen Disaster. If you’re going to build an experimental power plant that taps power from your sun using a wormhole, don’t build it on the planetary surface! Also, relativistic kill vehicles and really big strangelet bombs, or even antimatter bombs; and in theory, some
Trope-a-Day: Earth is the Center of the Universe
Earth is the Center of the Universe: Severely averted. Earth is an unknown backwater somewhere out beyond the ass end of the Periphery, and has all the galactopolitical significance you would expect a world which, having once reached its own moon, gives up on space travel beyond its own orbit
TV Tropes and Worldbuilding
An article discussing the use of TV Tropes in worldbuilding – for adding depth, norms, and customs to a universe – specifically referencing my trope-a-day project. Check out the rest of Serial Outlet while you’re there, too!
Trope-a-Day: Eagle Squadron
Eagle Squadron: The Sanguinary Enforcers of the Liberty Ethic often play this role for various libertist movements in one part of the Associated Worlds or another, strictly freelance, of course, as do some related groups for more specific issues (AI freedom, for example). They are relatively picky about who they
Vignettes of the Star Empire
I haz a book! (As you can see from the addition of the “My Books” tab up above, no doubt.) And you can find it on Amazon here, for Kindle, right now – over 44,000 words of nanofiction and metafiction from the Associated Worlds SF universe for the modest price
Trope-a-Day: Eagleland^WStarland
Eagleland Starland: i.e., the equivalent of the Eagleland trope from a different perspective, because when viewed from the outside, the Empire comes in different flavors, too. Flavor 1: The Empire’s sense of itself, of course, which it’s happy to export, can only be compared to America’s