Editing Status Three

First-pass: 400 pages (complete). Second-pass: 116 pages. Formatting: 0 pages. …progress is still made.

Contextual Discomfort

Just to clarify one point on that last: There are various things in their context that I’d be a lot more uncomfortable with in ours. I wouldn’t trust pretty much any Earth/human government with a legal system like theirs, or ubiquitous public surveillance, or the whole concept

More Questions, More Answers

And more questions arrive: Here is an interesting what if for you. If you could live in the Eldraeverse would you want to? They had me at immortality. Or at post-scarcity. Or at vastening. Or at forking. Or at the Repository of All Knowledge. Or at, y’know, space. Or

Trope-a-Day: Muggle Power

Muggle Power: In option one, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!”, played straight.  Noötropics, synnoetics, and immortagens especially, but enhancement technologies of all kinds are very widely used for exactly this; and in places where they aren’t available on the open market (usually because this sort of

Trope-a-Day: Mr. Vice Guy

Mr. Vice Guy: Subverted, inasmuch as while it may be true by Earth standards, moralities vary considerably all over the Galaxy, and people vary with them.  Vice-wise, in particular, the Empire is pro-pride, pro-greed, enjoys gluttony and lust when it can get them and within reasonable bounds, and sees nothing

Editing Status Two

First-pass: 300 pages. Second-pass: 42 pages. Formatting: 0 pages. …progress is made.

Trope-a-Day: The Mothership

The Mothership: In the military sense, the hyperdreadnoughts, the directional Supremacy-class bases, and probably most of the other classes that qualify as The Battlestar, or just plain old carrier classes, and fleet carriers.  Also their obvious civilian counterparts, the fleet carrier equivalents that ferry freighters and other civilian vessels around

Trope-a-Day: Morally Bankrupt Banker

Morally Bankrupt Banker: Subverted; most Imperial bankers (especially those from Gilea & Co.) are very, very moral people.  By the eldrae’s rigidly propertarian standards, and with total dedication to the Principle of Money and the sacred trust that is his fiduciaries’ wealth, which isn’t necessarily the kind of

Handwavium: Clarifying Tangle/FTL Restrictions

…since I’ve accumulated a couple of queries on this, it’s probably a good thing to clarify. The restriction on taking tangle (and certain other members of its family of technologies) through a stargate arise from the details of the Minovsky Physics I have defined to fill in the

Editing Status

First-pass: 175 pages. Second-pass: 0 pages. Formatting: 0 pages.

Trope-a-Day: Moral Guardians

Moral Guardians: There are, of course, no official Moral Guardians in the Empire.  It covers that right there in the Imperial Charter: “Access to information shall not be abridged by the Empire, or by any instrumentality thereof, save to the least extent required for the public safety; nor shall the

And So It Begins

…a short quieter-than-normal season. But. That’s good news! Because it means that hundreds of pages of fiction are being pored over by myself and my lovely editor, so that we can bring you Tales of the Associated Worlds: Volume II! (In e-book and book forms, the former of which